Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes
10 best books like Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes (Mary S. Hartman): The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection, The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI, Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England, The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes, The Victorian Celebration of Death, The Victorian Underworld, The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum, The Complete Jack the Ripper, The Devil's Rooming House: The True Story of America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer, And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
| Author | Dorothy Hoobler |
| ISBN | 0316017906 |
Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. Painters, scientists, revolutionaries, poets--all were there. But so, too, were the shadows: Paris was a violent, criminal place, its sinister alleyways the haunts of Apache gangsters and its cafes the gathering places...
| Author | Colin Evans |
| ISBN | 0425210073 |
Before there was CSI, there was one man who saw beyond the crime-and into the future of forensic science.
His name was Bernard Spilsbury-and, through his use of cutting-edge science, he single-handedly brought criminal investigations into the modern age. Starting out as a young, charismatic...
| Author | James Ruddick |
| ISBN | 0802139744 |
In 1875 the beautiful widow Florence Ricardo married the handsome and successful young attorney Charles Bravo, hoping to escape the scandals of her past. But Bravo proved to be a brutal and conniving man, and the marriage was far from happy. Then one night he suddenly collapsed, and three days later...
The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes
| Author | Henry Mayhew |
| ISBN | 0486440060 |
The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral history a century before the term was coined. Henry Mayhew vowed "to publish the history of a people, from the lips of the people themselves — giving a literal...
The Victorian Celebration of Death
| Author | James Stevens Curl |
| ISBN | 0750938730 |
In this beautifully illustrated and well-researched book Professor Curl has rescued much fascinating material from undeserved oblivion, and his work fills a genuine gap. From humble working-class exequies to the massive outpouring of grief at the State funerals of Wellington and Queen Victoria...
| Author | Donald Serrell Thomas |
| ISBN | 0814782388 |
Donald Thomas shows us, through the eyes of its inhabitants, the teeming underbelly of a world more often associated with gentility and high culture. Defined by night houses and cigar divans, populated by street people like the running-patterer with his news of murder, and entertainers like the Fire...
The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
| Author | Sarah Wise |
| ISBN | 0805075380 |
An enthralling account of the most notorious slum in Victorian England—and how it became a laboratory for "reforming" the poor
Condemned as a "fruitful hotbed of disease and death," the Old Nichol, a fifteen-acre East London slum, was a shameful blot on the age of progress. A maze of rotting...
| Author | Donald Rumbelow |
| ISBN | 0140173951 |
Few stories have fastened their claws so firmly into the public imagination as the notorious and gruesome Whitechapel Murders of 1888. They were responsible for one of the most evocative legends in English folk history - Jack the Ripper. Best of all - for the myth-makers, that is - he was never caught,...
The Devil's Rooming House: The True Story of America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer
| Author | M. William Phelps |
| ISBN | 1599216019 |
Phelps' dragging on and on about the 1911 heatwave was, I think, an attempt to write like another very popular writer who braids together true crime tales and historically significant events. In fact, at one point, Phelps mentions Marconi, the subject of a book by the writer I refer to. Anyway, it didn't...
| Author | Steve Oney |
| ISBN | 0679421475 |
On April 27, 1913, the bludgeoned body of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan was discovered in the basement of Atlanta’s National Pencil Factory. The girl’s murder would be the catalyst for an epic saga that to this day holds a singular place in America’s collective imagination—a saga that would...
| Author | Geoffrey O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0805081151 |
In the tradition of The Devil in the White City comes a spell-binding tale of madness and murder in a nineteenth century American dynasty
On June 3, 1873, a portly, fashionably dressed, middle-aged man calls the Sturtevant House and asks to see the tenant on the second floor. The bellman goes...
| Author | Susan Tyler Hitchcock |
| ISBN | 0393327531 |
After killing her mother with a carving knife, Mary Lamb spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses; yet the crime and its aftermath opened up a new life. Freed to read extensively, she discovered her talent for writing and, with her brother, the essayist Charles Lamb, collaborated on the famous...
Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
| Author | Mike Dash |
| ISBN | 1400054710 |
They called it Satan’s Circus—a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was a place where everyone from the chorus girls to the beat cops was on the take and where bad boys became wicked men;...
| Author | Patricia Cline Cohen |
| ISBN | 0679740759 |
In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561633089 |
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Rick has researched this book extensively and presents, with his own inimitable tongue-in-cheek style, the jack The Ripper mystery as told through a journal of a fascinated Englishman of the day. Both factual and darkly funny, Geary's personal...
| Author | P.D. James |
| ISBN | 0140131868 |
During a dark night in December 1811, in London's East End, a tradesman, his young wife, sleeping baby, and a shop boy were battered to death in their home. Days later, a pub owner, his wife, and a servant were similarly killed. No motive was found.
P.D. James, collaborating with a former colleageue,...
| Author | Stewart P. Evans |
| ISBN | 0786707682 |
This singular encyclopedic work offers the ultimate in Ripper resources. Solidly researched and profusely illustrated, collated from all the known official records and supplemented by contemporary press reports, it presents for the first time, in one volume, a prime-source reference book on...
| Author | Michael Alpert |
| ISBN | 0582772907 |
A sensational story of murder, trial and public revenge influenced the great writers and commentators of the day. As much a book about London as the story of a murder books about London sell. Full of fascinating detail about mid-Victorian London in the vein of Peter Ackroyd social history at its best.
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| Author | William Roughead |
| ISBN | 0940322463 |
Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and his true crime stories, written in the early 1900s, are among the glories of the genre. Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to...
Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder
| Author | Kate Colquhoun |
| ISBN | 1847443699 |
On 9 July 1864, after an evening with relatives, Thomas Briggs walked through Fenchurch Station and entered carriage 69 on the 9.45 Hackney-bound train. Little did he know that he was travelling into history ...
A few minutes later, two bank clerks entered the compartment. As they sat down,...
| Author | Matthew Sweet |
| ISBN | 0571206638 |
Suppose that everything we think we know about 'The Victorians' is wrong? That we have persistently misrepresented the culture of the Victorian era, perhaps to make ourselves feel more satisfyingly liberal and sophisticated? What if they were much more fun than we ever suspected? Matthew Sweet's...
On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective,...
