"On Thursday 7 July 2005, four bombs were detonated in London killing 52 people (including the bombers) and injuring a further 700. It was the firs...

This book reveals Marvin Clark's fascinating life as a Boston drug dealer from 1960-1990 and a participant in some of seminal events of the latter ...

If America can be called the land of the scam, then international con artists from Nigeria are hard at work trying to catch up. Although their pitc...

Tour the Upper Midwest to explore the blood-soaked halls of hideous history through twenty dark and demented stories from the corridors of criminal...

This volume covers Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Khun Sa and Raymond Chow. All three of these men are among the most colourful gangsters of recent times....

New England is notorious for its dark tourism with tragic and treacherous attractions, both historical and recent, that re-create death, suffering,...

Ohio has seen countless true crimes committed, but the cases presented here are uniquely fascinating as they have left ghosts behind in their wake....

This true adventure begins in the late 1800s in the rough-and-tumble towns of northern California and ends on the Lower East Side of New York City ...

Punctuated by gunshots and posse hoofbeats, these true tales, many told for the first time, illustrate, in both words and rare photographs, perilou...

A veteran police officer gives his thoughtful, balanced views on police shootings, racial profiling, community relations, and every other aspect of...

These eight true tales explore the dark side of 20th-century prairie history. A Saskatchewan farmhouse is burned to the ground to conceal the bruta...

An African American soldier returns home to New York City from the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. It is a time and turbulence and change. Racism is...

This factual story about how Christopher Evans and John Sontag came to be the most wanted men in California in 1893 is also the story of life in th...

Winner, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionShortlisted, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book AwardOn July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of...

A national bestseller, now updated, expanded, and revised to tell an even bigger story.On July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of the Moosehead brewi...

This is the first book of its kind in any language: the ultimate Italian gangland experience. Since 2006 Carl Russo has photographed Mafia hotspots...

In the autumn of 1888 London women lived under the shadow of the Ripper murders -- killings perhaps unmatched in their sadistic brutality. Florence...

Do you think the smuggling of drugs and people is a new phenomenon in Canada's west? Think again! Between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries, many...

Winston Churchill's description of Stalinist Russia in 1939 -- he called it a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma -- easily could have b...

Tales featuring drug king pins, entertainers, hit men, street gangs, con men, corrupt cops and reformed gang-bangers. Read about the most feared ma...

This book chronicles the numerous events that have affected the University of North Carolina and seriously brought into question what was once a st...

On New Year's Eve in New Orleans, 1972 Mark James Essex began one of the most violent and deadly sniper attacks on policemen that any American city...

Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOn a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hal...

Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History Award, and Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-Fictio...