By Errol Morris. “The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald.” This interrogation (so to speak) of the fairness of the proceedings against MacDonald was a trial for MY patience, but legendary genre documentarian...

By William Thorp. Translated by Lynn E. Palermo. From Otto Penzler’s “Crime Ink” imprint at Mysterious Bookshop comes a French author on an American case — here, Joseph D’Angelo and the Golden State/E...

By Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz. I don't know how many people know about Eliot Ness's pursuit -- vain, alas -- of the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run; this book may not be the best place to sta...

By Jonathan J. Moore. Per the back cover, "takes an informative no-holds-barred look at the history of assassination, from Ancient Greece to modern times." Includes accounts of "creative weapons, from...

From Zone Productions. Not entirely sure about the naming convention here, but cases include the Detroit child murders, the Black Dahlia, and the Green River Killer. In good shape, some evidence of ha...

By Jonathon Green. “An illustrated rogue’s gallery cataloguing over 600 killers, bandits, swindlers, sex-criminals, con-men, forgers, mafiosi, cannibals, and other outlaws.” An early-eighties “directory of infamy,” organized by “charge.” This excitedly designed jacket has some mild shelfwear and an old sticker on the f

By Avram Davidson. Per the back cover, “BLUNDERERS … CRIMINALS … HEROES” — so, you’ve got your major case, you’ve got your war heroes, you’ve got your organized AND disorganized crime. This 1962 PB (“Regency books mean controversy”!) has the expected edge- and cornerwear, small spine splits, and page toning…but the pag

By Charles E. Shepard. The Bakkers and Jessica Hahn were SNL Weekend Update staples of my youth; Shepard's absolute unit of an investigation into Jim and Tammy Faye's rise and fall won the 1988 Pulitz...

By James D. Horan. You have to love a paperback this firm in its back-cover convictions: "This book is the truth." It's also printed slightly crookedly. But for a paperback from 1958, it's in pretty g...

Edited by Jonathan Goodman. A compendium of "very best true crime writing" -- cases include Jack the Ripper, John Lennon, Capone, Nilsen, and more, with writing from Thackeray, Runyon, Thurber, and ot...

By Henry E. Scott. "America's first tabloid," and all the scandals its headlines blared about (plus the real "crime" here, its use as kompromat).  This hardcover is in very nice shape; the jacket has ...

Edited by Roger M. Williams. “Meet the masterminds of some of the world's most clever frauds, fixes and felonies — and learn how they (almost) got away with it” — including Moll Cutpurse, Dillinger, J...

By Bryan Denson. Part of a series “for young readers” on Ted Kaczynski and the race to stop his lethal bombings. Small remainder mark to the bottom page edges of this PB, some mild shelfwear and page ...

"A Marshall Cavendish Weekly Publication" on "Fernandez and Beck, Gallego and Smith, the Birnies: The masters and the slaves." Very mild wear to the corners and edges of this stiff-cover magazine; big...

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 ...

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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...