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Provides narrative accounts of ten real-life crimes of passion.

A collection of true stories recounting murder cases in which the victims were killed for money, including the case of former Marine sergeant Roland Pitre Jr.

Presents ten true crime stories about seemingly normal men and women who committed murder.

An anthology that features one book-length study, and five additional cases from the author's files, each relating the details of a crime involving an innocent victim or victims who are subjected to shocking revelations.

A collection of six true crime stories, with photographs, chronicling the cases of convicted murderers Randy Roth, Charles Rodman Campbell, Cynthia Marler, Ken Burke, Richard Marquette, and Sherwood Knight.

Presents a journalistic account of the murder investigation of Celeste Beard and Tracey Tarlton for the 2000 killing of Steven Beard in Austin, Texas.

Tells the parallel stories of the skepticism and incredulity that accompanied Guglielmo Marconi's invention of wireless communication in the late nineteenth century, and the investigation of the murder of an inconvenient wife by her love-starved husband, Dr.

While investigating the murder of her English teacher, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, who works as assistant coroner for her father, begins a romance with the most popular guy in school, awaits the arrival of her long-missing mother, and puts her life in danger.

Presents an account of the murder of Iowa farmer John Hossack in December 1900, drawing from newspaper accounts, government documents, unpublished memoirs, and the legal record to retrace the subsequent investigation, and the arrest and trial of his wife, Margaret.

Miss Marple refuses to take matters at face value when the body of a young woman is found in the colonel's library.

Examines the murder of twenty-year-old Manhattan cigar salesgirl Mary Rogers in 1841, the troubled life of Edgar Allan Poe, and his treatment of the case in his story "The Mystery of Marie Rog?t.

Reexamines the murder of Bessie Goldberg in the Boston suburb of Belmont in 1963--a crime for which African-American handyman Roy Smith was tried and convicted--in light of the confession two years later by Albert DeSalvo to being the notorious Boston Strangler, and the knowledge that DeSalvo was also in the neighborhood the day Goldberg died, working at the author's home.

The family of a murder victim, a journalist opposed to capital punishment and the man convicted of the killing find their lives bound together as the hour of execution approaches, while the person who knows the truth about the murder waits to plunge them into an abyss of terror.

Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman, is accused of the murder of a young Russian boy and refuses to confess to a crime he did not commit in spite of the injustices committed against him.

Raskolnikov, an impoverished Russian student, murders a despicable old pawnbroker, reasoning that his evil act is outweighed by humanitarian good, but he discovers the fault in his theory when he is plagued by horror and guilt over his actions.