The Bandit Kings: From Jesse James to Pretty Boy Floyd By Roger A. Bruns. A compendium of "the villains who robbed banks, trains, and stagecoaches...from the days of roving gangs on horseback...to the era of the clutch-popping Tommy-gunners." So, mythic t...

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True Crime: New Jersey By Patricia A. Martinelli. A compendia of "the Garden State's most sensational criminal cases," including the Lindbergh kidnapping, John List, the mob, Megan Kanka, and more. A very lightly used PB, s...

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The Darkest Places: Unsolved Mysteries, True Crimes, and Harrowing Dis From the editors of Outside Magazine. A compendium I've been looking forward to for quite some time, even though I've probably read all the selections therein. If you liked The Cold Vanish, you're lik...

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Crimes & Misdeeds By W. Lane Rogers. "Headlines from Arizona's Past" -- including John Dillinger, Aimee Semple McPherson, Winnie Ruth Judd, and many others. What looks like a souvenir-shop publication, this PB has some...

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Conversations with Kennedy By Benjamin C. Bradlee. Perhaps not true crime, but both subject and author were at the center of major cases in respective decades (JFK’s murder; Watergate), so let’s count it. Not the prettiest hard...

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The Anatomy of Evil By Michael H. Stone, MD. With a new epilogue from Stone and a foreword from Otto F. Kernberg, MD, psychiatrist Stone’s “22-level hierarchy of evil based on analyzing more than 600 violent criminals” a...

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The Detectives: Their Toughest Cases In Their Own Words By Peter A. Micheels. A compendium of NYPD workplace stories, blurbed by Ed McBain. An ex-library PB in visibly used condition: nibbly edgewear; a cracked spine; library stamp to top page edges; toned...

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The Cases That Haunt Us: From Jack the Ripper to JonBenet Ramsey, the By John Douglas & Mark Olshaker. An underrated compendium from one of the founders of the FBI profiling program -- and while Douglas's self-promotion tends to be ruthless elsewhere, it's less intr...

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Scoundrel Time By Lillian Hellman. The legendary author's memoir of "the witch-hunting, blacklisting years of the 1950's," with an introduction by Garry Wills. The jacket of this slender hardcover has seen better da...

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The Beauty Queen Killer By Bruce Gibney. "The true account of a twisted mind and the killing spree that horrified a nation." The mind in question belonged to "businessman," "sportsman," and sex offender Christopher Wilder. U...

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Pretty sure AI can't replace the human ability to endlessly formulate analogies on how bad AI is

Criminal Profile: Into The Mind Of The Killer By Wayne Petherick. Foreword by Val McDermid; introduction by Brent Turvey. Criminologist Petherick has taught in Australia and elsewhere; this color-illustrated UK publication opens up crime-scene an...

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Psycho Killers MIA Special 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...

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The Murderous Kind By Max Haines. “Fifty true tales of lethal relationships” — of all sorts, familial and marital, from all over the world.  A fairly trim PB with some edgewear, mild page toning, but an uncracked spine,...

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Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day! The National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2), a group launched last Juneteenth by Kevin Johnson of Sacramento’s Underground Books, has announced a new holiday: National Black Bookstore…

Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day!

Celebrate with a treat from a Black-owned indie bookstore.

Brittany Allen

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True Stories of Crime By Arthur Train. Part of "The True Stories of Celebrated Crimes" series from McKinley Stone & Mackenzie; it's difficult for me to discern whether some of these publications were authorized or not....

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Time-Life True Crime: Serial Killers By the editors of Time-Life Books. This a single from the series I think many of us wished we'd just ordered late-night instead of coveting it in vain/trying to piece it back together in that cat-pee-...

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True Crime 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...

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Jafsie Tells All! By Dr. John F. Condon. "Revealing The Inside Story Of The Lindbergh-Hauptmann Case." 1936 hardcover memoir of the case "of the century" by "Jafsie," the Bronx go-between and eyewitness in the case. Th...

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Coroner At Large By Thomas T. Noguchi, MD with Joseph DiMona. Known as the "coroner to the stars," Noguchi is a leitmotif in numerous books and case overviews from the mid-sixties to the mid-eighties; this 1985 compen...

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Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder 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...

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For The Thrill Of It: Leopold, Loeb And The Murder That Shocked Chicag By Simon Baatz. This account of the notorious Nietzschean thrill-kill case is a bit painstaking on the prose level, but very complete, at the least. This paperback has a cut flyleaf, some rumpling to ...

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Vanity Fair November 2011 Johnny Depp Depp cover story; other genre content includes Nancy Jo Sales on Courtney Love's allegations of theft from the Cobain estate; and James Wolcott's '70s-NYC memoir. Magazine shows very mild signs of rea...

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Saturday Evening Post September 10 1966 Stories include "The Assassin (beginning the deadly manhunt to trap a Soviet agent)"; cover art by the great Mitchell Hooks, who painted the Dr. No film poster, and ads featuring bowling gear and the ...

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The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper: A True Crime Adult Coloring Book By George McKeon; illustrations by Reza Riva'i. The author and artist take you through what we know about the Cooper skyjacking, as well as some possible outcomes -- all waiting for you and your color...

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