01-17-2015, 01:17 AM | #1 |
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Non Fiction:Suggest books based on True Crimes
What are good books on this topic?Like books on serial killers,real heists,art thieves,famous murders,kidnappings,white collar crimes etc even historical crimes,ship piracy etc
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01-17-2015, 02:01 AM | #2 |
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Ann Rule's "The Stranger Beside Me" comes to mind. It's about the hunt for the serial killer who turned out to be Ted Bundy.
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01-17-2015, 07:24 AM | #3 |
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Anything by Ann Rule.
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The most memorable, for me, are not about one specific crime:
Michael Capuzzo, The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases David Kennedy, Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America Art crime: Robert Wittman, Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo, Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art Check out Jeff Guinn on Manson and Bonnie & Clyde. Also often a good read, as well as important, are books on false convictions, like Wells and Leo, The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four. Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 01-17-2015 at 08:19 AM. |
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One that stands out for me is an oldie but a goodie, Joseph Wambaugh's "Echoes in the Darkness". An excellent account written with biting sarcasm about the hunt for the killers of a woman and her two young children. Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer by Tim Cahill is one of many books about the infamous serial killer, John Wayne Gacy. I read it many years ago but one passage that particularly stands out is towards the end of the book when Gacy's is in his lawyers office late at night. The lawyer is so scared by what he is being told that he asks Police waiting outside who were following Gacy to come in and wait in the office.
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, by Kate Summerscale, about a child murder in England in 1860; and Ann Rule's Small Sacrifices, about a mother who shot her three children.
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My wife's recommended:
The Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer, about Gary Gilmore. Killing for Company, by Brian Masters, which is about Dennis Neilsen. Beyond Belief, by Emlyn Williams, which is about the Moors Murders. Helter Skelter, by Vincent Bugliosi, about Charles Manson. Graham |
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01-17-2015, 05:24 PM | #9 |
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Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
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There's been lots of discussion about the extent to which that one is non-fiction:
http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/...e-capote-myth/ |
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Also, if you enjoy reading Ann Rule, try M. William Phelps.
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