Historical
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The Warden’s Son: Growing Up at the Idaho State Penitentiary
$17.99 Add to cartWhen Jerry Clapp’s father became warden of the Idaho State Penitentiary in 1945, the young boy quickly learned the rules and boundaries of roaming one of the most dangerous grounds in the West.
Throug
- Author: Clapp, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 21, 2021
- ISBN10: 1735414522
- Language: English
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The Killer and Frank Lloyd Wright: The True Story of Mass Murder in Paradise
$27.99 Read moreThe scandal. The genius. The murder that shocked America.
Frank Lloyd Wright was more than the mind behind America’s most iconic buildings–he was a man whose turbulent private life captivated a nation
- Author: Sherman, Casey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1464241899
- Language: English
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When the Bluegrass Ran Red: The Era When Bowling Green Was Little Chicago, Newport Was Sin City, and Sensational Crime, Corruption and Murder Were Ram
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Swietek, Wes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1965370292
- Language: English
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Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force’s Most Infamous Murder Cases
$21.95 Add to cartA riveting true-crime history of London’s first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases.
The idea of “Scotland Yard” is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London stree- Author: Read, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369481
- Language: English
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Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Pearl, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0063338076
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land
$21.95 Add to cartDAVID J. WEBER BOOK PRIZE FINALIST: The true–and unsolved–story of unabashedly greedy men, their exploitation of Muscogee land, and the hunt for the ghost of a boy who may never have existed
For re- Author: Cobb, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0807021393
- Language: English
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Doctors’ Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America
$29.95 Add to cartThroughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that th… [more below]
- Author: McPhee, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 149308805X
- Language: English
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End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America
$30.00 Add to cartThe gripping story of the Ruby Ridge siege, showing how the historic standoff between federal agents and a white-separatist family set the stage for the conspiracy-laced politics of the Trump era.
On- Author: Jennings, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0316381942
- Language: English
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The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
$23.00 Add to cartAmerica’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady–a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.
“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworl- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0593243870
- Language: English
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The Emmett Till Case
$15.99 Add to cartAt the end of August 1955, the lifeless and disfigured body of a teenager was fished out of the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. The body was that of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old Black boy from … [more below]
- Series: 50 States of Crime #4
- Author: Pottier, Jean-Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1613166923
- Language: English
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New York’s Scoundrels, Scalawags, and Scrappers: The City in the Last Decade of the Gilded Age
$24.95 Add to cartThe 1890s was the tail end of the Gilded Age. It was not a “Golden Age,” it was a veneer, and although the decade is specifically called “The Gay Nineties,” the gaiety was generally reserved for the
- Author: Tauranac, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1493090100
- Language: English
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Whispers in the Cradle: Uncovering the Dark Side of English Nursery Rhymes
$32.95 Add to cartI grew up singing them. You did too. Cheerful nursery rhymes that seemed so harmless-innocent songs passed down through generations, filling our childhoods with laughter and melody. But what if I told
- Author: Weinberger, Brittany
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1456662597
- Language: English
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Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
$34.00 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and bet
- Author: Pearl, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063433524
- Language: English
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Death in Briar Bottom: The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970s
$27.00 Add to cartOn July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for the night at Briar Bottom, a public US Forest Service campground in western North Carolina. The impromptu… [more below]
- Author: Silver, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1469682869
- Language: English
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Shadow Men: The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America
$29.00 Read more“Polchin knows the era, and brings to his account a wealth of colorful supporting detail . . . With its layers of taboos and public spectacle, the case feels, a century later, as relevant as ever.” —… [more below]
- Author: Polchin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1640096000
- Language: English
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Twenty-One Boxes: Robin’s Story and the Tragedy of the Edenton Seven
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1989, the Little Rascals Day Care in Edenton, North Carolina, was suddenly thrust into the national spotlight. One day, the owner’s husband disciplined a boy at naptime, and soon an angry mother su
- Author: Hester, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: March 13 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989715015
- Language: English
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Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco
$32.00 Add to cartThe sensational, forgotten true story of a woman who murdered her married lover in Gilded Age San Francisco and the trial that epitomized the city’s transformation from raucous frontier town into mode… [more below]
- Author: Krist, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593444213
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Cleveland: And More True Tales of Crime and Disaster from Cleveland’s Past
$14.95 Add to cart“Heroes and rogues fill the pages of this book. The stories will hold your attention and chill you to the bone.” — Crime Shadow News
Cleveland’s master of historical crime and disaster returns with 15
- Author: Bellamy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: October 13 2010
- ISBN10: 1598510673
- Language: English
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The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him
$30.00 Add to cartThe shocking account of the women tortured by a legendary psychiatrist in his infamous “sleep room,” and the survivors fighting for change in the system
The Sleep Room is thriller novelist Jon Stock’s- Author: Stock, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1419774476
- Language: English
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American Scare: Florida’s Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives
$34.00 Add to cartA vital expos? for both our history and our present day, American Scare tells the riveting story of how the Florida government destroyed the lives of Black and queer citizens in the twentieth century.… [more below]
- Author: Fieseler, Robert W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 593183959
- Language: English
