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Post by hi224 on Sept 21, 2017 7:55:28 GMT
Anyone here.
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Post by darknessfish on Sept 21, 2017 8:29:11 GMT
David Simon's Homicide: A Life on the Streets, which led to the TV series, is a bit of a masterpiece in my view. Not a single true crime event, but the author was essentially deployed for a full year to the Baltimore homicide dept, embedded with their detectives, noting the personalities, practices, stresses and politics that affect their work.
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Post by theravenking on Sept 21, 2017 10:11:02 GMT
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann – a collection of articles originally written for The New Yorker. Not all pieces qualify as true crime, but at least two of them are must-reads: The Imposter and True Crime. Both were made into films, the first was adapted into an award-winning documentary the second was made into a feature film with Jim Carrey. They are quite fascinating and unusual crime stories.
Public Enemies: The True Story of America's Greatest Crime Wave by Bryan Burroughs – This is the book the Michael Mann movie was based on, but it’s far more thorough and insightful than the film.
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi – The first half of this book is excellent as it retells the murders of the Italian serial-killer known as “Il Mostro”, the second is perhaps less interesting and occasionally a bit tedious recounting how the authors started investigating the case themselves and got caught up in the Italian political machine of intrigue and corruption. Nonetheless worth reading especially if you are a fan of Thomas Harris.
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 21, 2017 16:26:37 GMT
hi224, let me second theravenking's recommendation of David Grann's The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, a fine and fascinating book about some of the weirdest unsolved mysteries in recent memory. "Mysterious Circumstances," the piece on Richard Lancelyn Green, is something right after Sherlock Holmes's own heart; "Trial by Fire" and "The Chameleon" are marvellous and surprising pieces of non-fiction writing; and "True Crime" is just--weird. Very, very weird, and something out of a novel itself (cue the tale's splendidly recursive qualities). I haven't read the other two, but I can and do recommend this one.
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Post by hi224 on Sept 21, 2017 17:17:03 GMT
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann – a collection of articles originally written for The New Yorker. Not all pieces qualify as true crime, but at least two of them are must-reads: The Imposter and True Crime. Both were made into films, the first was adapted into an award-winning documentary the second was made into a feature film with Jim Carrey. They are quite fascinating and unusual crime stories. Public Enemies: The True Story of America's Greatest Crime Wave by Bryan Burroughs – This is the book the Michael Mann movie was based on, but it’s far more thorough and insightful than the film. The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi – The first half of this book is excellent as it retells the murders of the Italian serial-killer known as “Il Mostro”, the second is perhaps less interesting and occasionally a bit tedious recounting how the authors started investigating the case themselves and got caught up in the Italian political machine of intrigue and corruption. Nonetheless worth reading especially if you are a fan of Thomas Harris. Is a death in italy any good. |
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Post by Bargle on Sept 25, 2017 12:50:16 GMT
Any of the John Douglas books about profiling.
Any of the Robert K. Ressler books about profiling.
Any of the Harold Schecter books on serial Killers. One comment: H. H. Holmes was NOT America's first serial killer. That dubious distinction belongs to The Horrible Harpe brothers.
"Go Down Together" by Jeff Guinn. The best book on Bonnie and Clyde I've seen.
"This is the Zodiac Speaking" by Michael Kelleher and David Van Nuys. Best introduction the unsolved Zodiac murders.
"Hauptman's Ladder" by Richard T. Cahill Jr. Best book on the Lindbergh kidnapping.
"Bodies We've Buried" by Jarrett Hallcox and Amy Welch. About the National Forensic Academy.
"The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers" by Michael Newton. Yes, there's enough of them to make up a rather large book.
"Helter Skelter" by Vincent Bugliosi. About the notorious Tate-LaBianca murders and Charles Manson.
"Capone: The Man and the Era" by Laurence Bergreen.
I could list more, but I think that's enough.
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Post by hi224 on Sept 25, 2017 17:13:32 GMT
How about a death in italy?.
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 25, 2017 18:31:51 GMT
hi224I don't know, as I haven't read it. I thought you were only asking for true crime books in general?
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Post by hi224 on Sept 25, 2017 20:08:32 GMT
hi224I don't know, as I haven't read it. I thought you were only asking for true crime books in general? Definitely but always open to anything as well. |
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Post by OldSamVimes on Sept 26, 2017 6:25:57 GMT
Panzram.
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Post by hi224 on Sept 26, 2017 8:30:50 GMT
hi224 I don't know, as I haven't read it. I thought you were only asking for true crime books in general? I apologize for confusion. |
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Post by cypher on Sept 27, 2017 13:12:20 GMT
'The Murder Room : The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases' by Michael Capuzzo.
This is about The Vidocq Society that meets once a year to solve cold cases. Very interesting characters and cases.
The St. Petersburg Times review said it, "belongs on the same shelf as David Simon's 'Homicide'".
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 29, 2017 17:29:45 GMT
Bloodletters and Bad Men - a three volume set detailing individual bios of the a who's who of vile men and women wanted for every crime in the book. The volumes are chronological and the bios are in alphabetical order.
Volume 1 - Captain Lightfoot to Jesse James
Volume 2 - Butch Cassidy to Al Capone
Volume 3 - Lucky Luciano to Charles Manson
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 29, 2017 18:14:16 GMT
I apologize for confusion. No need to apologize, but are you looking for true crime in general? Because, if so, I have another one (if you can find it--it's little-known): Twelve Bad Men, by Thomas Seccombe. |
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Post by hi224 on Sept 29, 2017 19:07:39 GMT
I apologize for confusion. No need to apologize, but are you looking for true crime in general? Because, if so, I have another one (if you can find it--it's little-known): Twelve Bad Men, by Thomas Seccombe. I just bought the monster of florence, might get wheelmen next. |
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Post by hi224 on Sept 30, 2017 0:16:35 GMT
I apologize for confusion. No need to apologize, but are you looking for true crime in general? Because, if so, I have another one (if you can find it--it's little-known): Twelve Bad Men, by Thomas Seccombe. And definitely in very general as well. |
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Post by hi224 on Nov 27, 2017 2:35:55 GMT
west memphis 3 murder books?.
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Post by politicidal on Nov 28, 2017 17:46:02 GMT
Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City - it's about H.H. Holmes and his Murder Castle at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
Douglas Preston's The Monster of Florence - It recalls his collaborative efforts with an Italian journalist to track down the infamous but unidentified serial killer. Supposedly inspired the character of Hannibal Lecter.
Midnight in Peking - About a young English woman's murder in 1930s Beijing (then called Peking) and her father's obsessive search for her killer. It remains unsolved.
David Grann's new book Killers of the Flower Moon - About how the FBI investigated a conspiracy in the 1920s to kill off Native Americans that had access to oil rich property.
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Post by hi224 on Nov 29, 2017 0:17:35 GMT
Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City - it's about H.H. Holmes and his Murder Castle at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Douglas Preston's The Monster of Florence - It recalls his collaborative efforts with an Italian journalist to track down the infamous but unidentified serial killer. Supposedly inspired the character of Hannibal Lecter. Midnight in Peking - About a young English woman's murder in 1930s Beijing (then called Peking) and her father's obsessive search for her killer. It remains unsolved. David Grann's new book Killers of the Flower Moon - About how the FBI investigated a conspiracy in the 1920s to kill off Native Americans that had access to oil rich property. What do you think about the grann lost city of z book. |
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Post by outrider127 on Nov 29, 2017 1:18:04 GMT
Most books by Ann Rule and Aphrodite Jones are very good |
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