True stories titles - 7,418 results

A Grim Almanac of Jack the Ripper's London 1870-1

Neil R. Storey

Biography; True crime; Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs; Local history

Paperback

Did you know? On 15 November 1892 as Dr Neill Cream dropped through the gallows trap at Newgate he declared 'I'm Jack the... [more]

Death in the City of Light: The True Story of the Serial Killer Who Terrorised...

David King

Biography; True crime; European history; The Holocaust

Paperback

Occupied Paris, 1944. The swastika flies from the top of the Eiffel Tower, Nazi officers patrol the elegant boulevards and... [more]

Pack of Bloody Animals: The Walsh Street Murders Revisited

John Kerr, Ray Mooney

Biography; True crime

Paperback

The Killings called 'Walsh Street' arose when police and armed robbers went to war. Both sides, convinced the others started... [more]

Dead Men's Silver: The Story of Australia's Greatest Shipwreck Hunter

Hugh Edwards

Biography; True stories: discovery, historical & scientific; Maritime history; Ships & shipping: general interest

Paperback

Brought up on tales of pirates and great treasure hunters, Hugh Edwards never expected to handle 'pieces of eight' himself.... [more]

Mad Dog: William Cyril Moxley and the Moorebank Killings

Peter Corris

Biography; True crime

Hardback

William Cyril Moxley was hanged at Sydney's Long Bay Gaol in 1932 - the first execution in New South Wales for eight years.... [more]

The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi, the 'Oskar Schindler...

Robin de Crespigny

Biography; True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; Refugees & political asylum

Paperback

After his father, brother and he were incarcerated and tortured in Saddam's Abu Ghraib, Ali al Jenabi escaped from Iraq first... [more]

Midnight in Peking

Paul French

Biography; True crime

Paperback

January, 1937. Peking is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, lavish cocktail bars and opium dens, warlords and corruption,... [more]

And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the...

Christopher Ward

True stories: discovery, historical & scientific; History; Maritime history

Paperback

On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their... [more]

The Millionaire's Wife: The True Story of a Real Estate Tycoon, His Beautiful...

Cathy Scott

Biography; True crime

Paperback

<p>The Millionaire's Wife<p>Cathy Scott <p>The beloved son of Holocaust survivors, forty-nine-year-old George Kogan grew up... [more]

SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin...

Chuck Pfarrer

True war & combat stories; History; Political assassinations

Paperback

On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation... [more]

Horrible Man: The Baffling Portland Hairdresser Murders

Leonie Wallace

Biography; True crime

Paperback

It is one of Australia's worst unsolved crimes. On a Friday afternoon as the wind-down to the weekend begins, two women are... [more]

The Double Life of Herman Rockefeller

Hilary Bonney

Biography; True crime

Paperback

In January 2010 a law-abiding, church-going father of two from Melbourne's leafy eastern suburbs didn't come home after a... [more]

Sins of the Father: The Untold Story Behind Schapelle Corby's Ill-fated...

Eamonn Duff

Biography; True crime

Paperback

A reckless father, his dark past, an Adelaide drug trafficker and the Gold Coast beauty school dropout who kept her mouth... [more]

Spree Killers: True and Devastating Massacres of Unpredictable Gunmen

Nigel Cawthorne

Biography; True crime; Crime & criminology

Paperback

Nigel Cawthorne has written, contributed to and edited more than sixty books on subjects as diverse as skiing, finance, sex,... [more]

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great...

Kate Summerscale

Biography; True crime; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback

The national bestseller, now in paperback. <p>In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor... [more]

Voyage to Disaster

Henrietta Drake-Brockman

True stories; History; Maritime history

Hardback

Mutiny, murder, rape, torture; a priceless treasure fuelling the basest human greed; a courageous journey in search of rescue... [more]

Titanic: First Accounts

True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; History; Maritime history; Ships & shipping: general interest

Paperback

Just in time for the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic, this graphic deluxe edition compiles firsthand accounts, testimonies,... [more]

The Australian Crime File

Paul B. Kidd

Biography; True crime

Paperback

Finally, the third and final collection of true crime from Paul B. Kidd's Crime Files. There are hours of more entertaining... [more]

O.J. is Innocent and I Can Prove it: The Shocking Truth About the Murders...

William C. Dear

Biography; True crime

Paperback

Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman were brutally murdered at her home on Bundy Drive in Brentwood, California, on the night of... [more]

Outlaws Inc.: Flying With the World's Most Dangerous Smugglers

Matt Potter

Biography; True crime

Paperback

In the world's most dangerous trouble spots, a small band of men risk their lives to fly in desperately needed aid. But they... [more]

Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder...

Kate Colquhoun

Biography; True crime

Paperback

In July 1864, Thomas Briggs was travelling home after visiting his niece and her husband for dinner. He entered a First Class... [more]

Gun Alley: Murder, Lies and Failure of Justice

Kevin Morgan

Biography; True crime; Forensic science

Paperback

In the early morning of New Year's Eve 1921, 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke's naked body was found in Gun Alley, a dead-end Melbourne... [more]

Return to the Badlands

Liam Houlihan

Biography; True crime

Paperback

Expanding on the success of Badlands, Return to Badlands is a collection of the bold and the bizarre in contemporary crime... [more]

Send Them to Hell: The Brutal Horrors of Bangkok's Nightmare Jails

Sebastian Williams

Biography; True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; Prisons

Paperback

Send Them to Hell is a horrifying, authentic chronicle of life as lived by foreign inmates over the past two decades in Bangkok's... [more]

A First Rate Tragedy

Diana Preston

Biography: historical, political & military; True stories: discovery, historical & scientific; Geographical discovery & exploration; Travel & holiday

Paperback

On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought - the snow-covered... [more]