Each year, hundreds of New Yorkers disappear under mysterious circumstances never to be heard from again, with their families and loved ones waitin...

Updated with new photographs. Colin Blaney's "Grafters", originally published in 2004, was a ground-breaking exposé of the links between criminal g...

Mark Blaney was a few years younger than his brother Colin (author of Grafters originally published by Milo in 2004, 9781903854280) and followed in...

Don DeNevi tells the stories of some of the most daring desperados ever to set dynamite to strong box or safe.

1860. An Aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Sco...

Renowned American photographer Jack Watson travelled to Cuba on a legal humanitarian visa. He chronicled his journey with breath-taking, and often ...

An evocative collection that illuminates life for those directly affected by mental illness—both the sufferers and their family members—and endeavo...

This book is the dramatic psychological study of a brutal killer, whose crimes of rape and murder were gruesome secrets he kept even from himself. ...

The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines hoax as a "humorous or malicious deception," and hex as "a magic spell." These stories of hoaxes and hexes i...

In his first true crime memoir, undercover operator Norm Boucher recounts eight months spent infiltrating Vancouver’s heroin scene, a world of para...

In April 2016, Dr. Nasser Al-Mohannadi became one of the first Qataris ever to complete a full Ironman race. He swam 3.8km, biked 180km and ran 42....

The bombs were perfect. The metal he'd so painstakingly cast glimmered in the dim light of the cabin. The hickory wood on the flipper switch was sm...

She was an innocent Mormon girl. He was America’s most notorious serial killer. When their paths crossed on a quiet autumn afternoon, he planned to...

California's picturesque shores have always been a magnet for outcasts and criminals. Read about 64 of the most horrifying crimes ever committed in...

This book presents descriptions of theories about white-collar crime offenders and offenses. A case study is developed from a sample of 369 white-c...

Kath Williams, who emerges as a feisty and quietly determined woman, was the major force behind the struggle for equal pay for women. She was elect...

Poet, revolutionary, convict, movie star, Tupac Amaru Shakur was also the most popular and influential rapper in the world. It's been 20 years sinc...

Scandal and corruption, drugs and pirates, triads and flower boats; the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the Communist take-over of Canton. Pet...

This book presents extraordinary, little-known tales of the infamous bandits and highwaymen who plied their trade in early California.

This is a remarkable account of the lives and experiences of Americans at War in Iraq and Afghanistan. War letters have long served scholars as a r...

On a hot summer day in August 1892, a double murder took place in Fall River, Massachusetts. Mr and Mrs Andrew Borden were killed in their own home...

Lou Labrant - A Woman's Life, A Teacher's Life

In the cold winter of 1875, two rebellious spirits travel from the pale sunlight of England to the raw heat of Australia. Harriet Rowell (age 23) a...

Mass shootings are arguably one of the worst manifestations of gun violence. As discussed in this book, media outlets, gun control and rights advoc...

Meet 18 of the Midwest's most atrocious and vile human beings. Read histories of murder and mayhem committed by individuals with burning anger and ...

The bond between cats and their people comes to the fore in these charming true stories. Cinders shows her young owner that she is more than her fe...

These are tales about people who turned around the lives of their dogs, and dogs who turned around the lives of their people. A retired greyhound n...

Relive some of the most notorious and long-forgotten historical crime stories of early California, from the Gold Rush to the mid-twentieth century....

Murder has a long and distinguished history in San Francisco. The city and its Bay Area can stand proudly with Paris, London, and New York in the s...

Presenting 15 famous cases from Fresno, California, set in the first part of the 20th century, a long-time detective in the sheriff's office introd...

Presenting 16 famous criminal cases from Fresno California at the turn of the 20th century, this gripping history brings fascinating tales of murde...

This is the fascinating story of La Cosa Nostras most ruthless hit squad. When the Big Four of crime -- Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Benj...

This book tells the story of the case of Zimbabwean-born New Zealand resident George Gwaze, twice charged and twice acquitted of the rape and murde...

"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...

In No One's Child, Judith takes you on a haunting pilgrimage to her life 'along the railway tracks,' with an intense and vivid portrait of Australi...

Artist, photographer, writer and explorer Mary Schaffer Warren overcame the limited expectations of women a century ago in order to follow her drea...

Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944) was SOE’s first woman wireless transmitter in German Occupied Paris during World War II. Posthumously awarded the Geor...

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,...

Milwaukee Phil. The Wizard of Odds. The Brain. Nicky Crow. Tony Ripe. Cork. Uncle. King Rat. Tony Ducks. DeBe. Tuffy. Mad Sam. Vinny Nip. The Rifle...

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 ...

From April 1917 until November 1918, America sent some two million soldiers to France to 'make the world safe for democracy' in World War I. It was...

This is the most newsworthy subject imaginable – and now a victim of such online romantic fraud has come forward to tell her compelling story and o...