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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Complete History of Jack the Ripper
Philip Sugden · 541 pages
The Complete Jack the Ripper
Donald Rumbelow · 305 pages
Discover the theories and facts surrounding the Whitechapel murders in David Rumbelow's The Complete Jack the Ripper... It is 1888 in London's Whitechapel district, where one by one a group of prostitutes are brutally murdered. Opium smoking Inspector Fred Abberline is called upon to investigate these horrific murders and through his visions track down and trap Jack the Ripper. David Rumbelow's ca
The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco
Robert Graysmith · 552 pages
Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases
Simon Read · 480 pages
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed
Patricia Cornwell · 387 pages
"Between August and November 1888, at least seven women were murdered in London's Whitechapel area. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End for months, and gave rise to the sobriquet that was to become shorthand for a serial killer - Jack the Ripper.". "For over a hundred years the murders have remained among the world's greatest unsolved crimes, and a wealth o
They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper
Bruce Robinson · 850 pages
A reinterpretation of the case of Jack the Ripper focuses on the "why" instead of the "who," theorizing that the residents of London society's finest homes created him as an outlet for their own hidden violent and taboo proclivities.
The Maul and the Pear Tree
P.D. James, T.A. Critchley · 256 pages
In this riveting true crime account, acclaimed author P. D. James, the "Queen of the English mystery novel" (Newsweek) joins forces with historian T. A. Critchley to re-create the Radcliffe Highway murders, a series of vicious crimes committed in 1811 ... The scene is the London Docks near Wapping Old Stairs, a sinister neighborhood where pirates were often hanged. The first victims were two hardw
Thunderstruck
Erik Larson · 480 pages
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world's "great hush." In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Judith Flanders · 556 pages
In this exploration of murder in the nineteenth century, Judith Flanders explores some of the most gripping cases that fascinated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction. She retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder--both famous and obscure--from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper to the tragedies of the murdered Marr family in Lon
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold · 352 pages
The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
Sarah Wise · 387 pages
Describes the 1831 murder of a young vagrant and the sale of his body to a London medical college, a case that led to the arrest of his killers, "resurrection men" who acted to satisfy the demand for fresh cadavers for the study of human anatomy.
The Diary of Jack the Ripper
Shirley Harrison · 333 pages
Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen
Brian Masters · 352 pages
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
Kate Summerscale · 378 pages
In East London in the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age thirteen) and his brother Nattie (age twelve) were arrested for matricide and sent for trial at the Old Bailey. Robert confessed to having stabbed his mother, but his lawyers argued that he was insane. The judge sentenced him to detention in Broadmoor, the most infamous criminal lunatic asylum in the land. Shockingly, Broadmoor turned out t
Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder
Kate Colquhoun · 339 pages
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester · 265 pages
Beyond Belief: The Moors Murderers. The Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
Emlyn Williams · 354 pages
On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
Stevie Cameron
The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
Brian Lane, Wilfred Gregg · 376 pages
Law & Disorder: The Legendary FBI Profiler's Relentless Pursuit of Justice
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker · 404 pages
"For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. The real-life model for FBI Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, he's had a brilliant and terrifying career, getting inside the minds of notorious murderers and serial killers including Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and David Berkowitz (Son of Sam). Written with long-time col
Lost Girls
Caitlin Rother · 372 pages
Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding achiever determined to make a difference. Fourteen-year-old Amber Dubois loved books and poured her heart into the animals she cared for. Treasured by their families and friends, both girls disappeared in San Diego County, just eight miles and one year apart. The community's desperate search led authorities to John Albert Gardner, a bru
Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
Peter Vronsky · 490 pages
The first book of its kind-photographs included.Mothers, daughters, sisters and grandmothers-fiendish killers all.Society is conditioned to think of murderers and predators as men, but in this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill-and the political, economic, social, and sexual implications.From history's earliest recorded cases of homicidal fema