Category - History
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Small-town Slayings in South Carolina
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From the lowcountry through the midlands and into the upstate, criminal cases and mysterious murders cast a dark shadow on small-town South Carol...
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The Lynchings in Duluth: Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /On the evening of June 15, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, three young black men, accused of the rape of a white woman, were pulled from their jail c...
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A Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged tw...
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Murder & Mayhem in Southeast Kansas
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From railroad towns like Ladore to cow towns like Newton and Wichita, southeast Kansas pulsed with rowdy activity during the late nineteenth cent...
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Blood of the Caesars: How the Murder of Germanicus Led to the Fall of Rome
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Unraveling a Murder Mystery That Changed History Could the killing of a single great leader while the Roman Empire was still in its infancy have ...
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Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Most readers know Salem only for the city's notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America's ...
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Question of Sanity: The True Story of Female Serial Killers in 19th Century New York
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The women who serve as the subjects for this book, all share compelling stories. Most of the women in Keene's book are from North Central New Yor...
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Murder and Mayhem on Staten Island
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The excitement and vibrancy of big-city thrills take a deadly turn when they hit Staten Island. Edward Reinhardt murdered his wife and rolled her...
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Murdering the President: Alexander Graham Bell and the Race to Save James Garfield
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most h...
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Murder in Minnesota: A Collection of True Cases
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"My investigation of Minnesota murders over the years revealed no new motives for killing anyone. The old ones are perfectly satisfactory. . . . ...
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I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /"A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state." —Pub...
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The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“T.J. English has the mastered the hybrid narrative art form of social history and underworld thriller. The Savage City is a truly gripping read ...
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children we...
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Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 — poisoned by the rare radioactive element...
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The Murder of Cleopatra: History's Greatest Cold Case
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A world-renowned criminal profiler takes a fascinating look at one of the most tragic mysteries in history. For more than two thousand years, the...
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The Witch of Delray: Rose Veres & Detroit's Infamous 1930s Murder Mystery
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Author Karen Dybis follows the twists and turns of a shocking story, revealing the truth of Detroit's own Hex Woman. Detroit was full of stark co...
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Gamblers & Gangsters: Fort Worth's Jacksboro Highway in the 1940s & 1950s
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A gripping account of rampant crime in Fort Worth, Texas, during the 1930s, through the 1950s, with hoodlums, gamblers, murderers, dopers, pimps,...
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The Silent and the Damned: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The 1913 murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan would have far-reaching consequences for Georgia and the nation; in the years that followed a Jewish m...
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Palestine Twilight: The Murder of Dr Glock and the Archaeology of the Holy Land
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Part travelogue, part true-thriller, Edward Fox’s brilliantly original book investigates the murder of a US archaeologist on the West Bank in 199...
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The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The New York Times bestselling and extraordinary true story of the critical events leading up to and following the assassination of President Joh...
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Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the J.F.K. Assassination
PaperbackOriginal price $30.99Original price $30.99 - Original price $30.99Original price $30.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Updated with the latest evidence, Pulitzer Prize finalist Anthony Summers’s essential, acclaimed account of President Kennedy’s assassination. ...
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The Day Kennedy Was Shot
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A minute-by-minute narrative account of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, The Day Kennedy Was Shot captures the action, mystery, and dra...
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The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /When a jury returns to a packed courtroom to announce its verdict in a capital murder case every noise, even a scraped chair or an opening door, ...
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One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 and a New York Times bestseller, and now the basis for the Netflix film 22 July, f...
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