By Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan. "Drawing on the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) at Columbia University, the most comprehensive study to date of sexual assault on a cam...

By Kim Cross. "Inside The Polly Klaas Kidnapping And The Search For America's Child." The abduction at knifepoint in Petaluma, CA; the largest FBI manhunt to date; what the blurbs call a non-fiction "...

By Elizabeth Flock. "Women, Vengeance, and Justice." The book "examines how three women have used violence to fight back" and how the media "distorts" these cases. The hardcover is new from the wareho...

By Cynthia L. Cooper and Sam Reese Sheppard. A somewhat overdesigned ex-library hardcover with average wear -- library wrappings and stamps inside and on page edges, mild shelfwear and a slight tilt t...

Edward W. Knappman, editor. Foreword by "celebrated defense attorney Roy Black." Twenty-six cases including Tonya Harding, Heidi Fleiss, the Bobbitts, Amy Fisher, and the Menendezes. A slim, well-kept...

By Michael Newton. “The Savage Odyssey of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate.” Sheds “new light” on this midcentury killing spree, including an updated “on Fugate’s life today.” Average used we...

By Casey Sherman. The 1960s reign of terror of Tony Costa in America's elbow. Some interesting blurbs on this hardcover -- Terence "The Sopranos" Winter; Lee Child -- and the jacket shows some shelfwe...

By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. “John F. Kennedy in the White House.” Not really a true-crime book, but given how that tenure ended, I’ve chosen to include it. The jacket on this 1965 Book-of-the-Month ...

By Col. Oleg Maximovich Nechiporenko. "The Never-Before-Told Story Of Lee Harvey Oswald By The KGB Colonel Who Knew Him." Of the meeting in Mexico City that "haunted" KGB officer Nechiporenko for deca...

By Leonard Levitt. "In 1982, the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time newspapers asked investigative reporter Levitt to look into the murder and the undying rumors of a cover-up. Levitt soon uncovered...

By Rachel McCarthy James. “A History of Axe Murder.” Not exactly what’s on the tin, but a ripping read regardless; if you enjoyed The Man from the Train, this is for you. Impressively blurbed, and new...

Naperville Public Library invites readers to check out the “Thick as Thieves” recommendations as part of its Amazing Book Challenge.

By Sarah Miller. “Lizzie Borden & The Trial Of The Century.” Another examination of the murders of Abby and Andrew Borden, and whether Lizzie did — or could have — killed them. Marked as “Ages 10 ...

By Doreen Rappaport. Part of the “Be The Judge/Be The Jury” series; for “teenage” readers. Presents the trial evidence along with discussion prompts. A hardcover in pretty nice shape: mild edgewear to...

By Arthur Train. A 1922 edition of the 1912 overview by the former New York County district attorney, with chapter titles like “the pleasant fiction of the presumption of innocence” (!!) and prose tha...

Issue 608. Robert Pattinson cover; genre content includes Frank Abagnale on the Catch Me If You Can musical, and a cyberattack. Magazine shows signs of reading/wear at edges and corners -- bumped bott...

By George Anastasia. “The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia.” “Based on extensive FBI files and exclusive interviews” with insiders — and Alite, a hit man and Got...

“Senate Resolution 60. Hearings before the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities of the United States Senate Ninety-Third Congress First Session.” “Watergate and Related Activities / Phase I: Watergate Investigation.” Hearings of May 1973. Exactly what you think it is; testimony of Watergate Hotel employ

By William D. Cohan. From the Sandra Jane Collection -- and does Wall Street have other kinds of tales? (But I kid my dad!) A chronicle of the collapse of Bear Stearns in March 2008 that also indicts ...

Edited by Clint Willis. "Stories Of Crooks, Killers, And Corruption From The World's Toughest City." With entries from St. Clair McKelway, Luc Sante, Thomas Byrnes, PG Wodehouse, Calvin Trillin, and m...

By Gerry Spence. Spence, "one of the century's great trial lawyers" (if he doesn't say so himself), claims to have been OJ Simpson's first choice to represent him -- and he and his buckskin-fringe jac...

Cover subjects include 6 tennis memoirs, MLK; inside, interviews with “Doris Kearns” and notes on Alger Hiss. Fairly well-kept for a half-century old: mild shelfwear, page toning, some old-book smell....

By John Carreyrou. Probably needs no introduction, but just in case, "the rise and fall of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup headed by Elizabeth Holmes" as reported by the Wall Street ...

By Robert J. Donovan. The author of PT-109 delves into "the astonishing story of these incredible murderers" who "struck at our Presidents." Nominated for an Edgar Award. This Popular Library PB from ...

"Executed by The Monday Murder Club." "From History and Literature to True Crime and Television, a Killer Selection of Trivia" on "villains," weapons, unsolved mysteries, and more. Some edgewear and a...

By “Police Chiefs of the world.” Edited by Kurt Singer; contributors include Scotland Yard’s Cherrill and J. Edgar Hoover.  A 1958 Crime Club hardcover and veteran of an upstate-NY library, with a som...

Edited by John Mortimer. Cover illustration by Bosch; TOC includes crooks “master” and “minor,” plus spies and “cads.” Probably the continental/global/‘90s iteration of Bloodletters & Badmen. The ...

By R.D. Rosen. "Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL." Luckman's father, Meyer, was serving time in Sing Sing as Sid starred at Columbia and in the early NFL; this is "the remarka...

"The 10 Worst Judges In New York” cover story. Other content includes Joseph L. Mankiewicz on the women of All About Eve. Visibly read magazine with some page toning; address label on front. Staples n...

By Belton Cobb. “Miscarriages of justice!” Eleven notorious wrongful convictions in the UK, from fiction author Cobb. The jacket of this 1962 HC isn’t in great shape, which is a pity, because the desi...

By John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. The second book from the FBI's legendary (just ask him) profiler. A little too self-congratulatory overall, but his insights into the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson...

Stories include the "stalwart detectives" who broke the Bundy case, the manhunt for the Oklahoma City bomber, a black widow, pirates, and more. A perfect gift for the true-crime traditionalist, this o...

By Detective First Grade Thomas McKenna and William Harrington. If he doesn't say so himself! McKenna "provides a firsthand look" at some bold-type NYC cases, including Chambers and the Central Park j...

Cover story is the filming of In Cold Blood; Scott Wilson, Truman Capote, and doubly genre-implicated Robert Blake are in the cover photo. Tons of compelling vintage material inside, including an ad f...

By William H. Honan. I suppose that's one way of putting it...NYT editor Honan spent four years with Edward M. Kennedy, interviewing him, pressing him on "the trickiest political questions and the mos...

By Robin Odell. The list includes Robert "Rattlesnake" James; a Russian guy who nearly "filled a chess board" of victims; and the execution-proof John Lee. The paperback is in decent shape for the boo...

By Rena Pederson. “The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief.” Pederson got obsessed with this midcentury heister while she was a UPI reporter; 50 years later, she picked up the trail again. This w...

By Mark Bowden. “And Other True Crime Stories.” Six of Bowden’s celebrated accounts of crime stories and evolving law-enforcement technology. A trim first-edition hardback in nice shape: mild rubbing ...

By Cliff Howe. "A gallery of the world's most vicious criminals." Most of the names here have dropped beneath the horizon, at least in the States, but cases include Landru, Burke and Hare, and a dozen...

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Edward W. Knappman, editor. Foreword by "celebrated defense attorney Roy Black." Twenty-six cases including Tonya Harding, Heidi Fleiss, the Bobbitts, Amy Fisher, and the Menendezes. A slim, well-kept...

By Mara Leveritt. "The True Story of the West Memphis Three." One of this generation's best-known major-case wrongful convictions, later turned into a movie starring Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon....

Edited by Marie F. Rodell (the series) and Oliver Weld Bayer (this volume); Vol. VI in the Regional Murder Series (yes, "really"). Cases include the Galentine-Jones affair, the "Head Hunter of Kingsbu...

By Edward Jay Epstein. Includes the Black Dahlia, Zodiac, and Hoffa, as well as the Lincoln assassination (?) and a dozen others. Visible wear to the jacket of this HC and a sticker on the back, but n...

By Diana Rickard. "How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence." "With a focus on some of the most popular series, like Serial and Making a Murderer, Rickard shows how innocence ...