Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2878

Secondhand True Crime Bargain Book Box SP2878

Eighteen true crime titles spanning serial killers, infamous British and American cases, and forensic studies — from Robert Graysmith's Zodiac investigation to Harold Schechter's history of America's first serial killer. A thorough cross-section of the genre's essential texts.

1. A Rage to Kill and Other True Cases — Ann Rule — One of Rule's later case collections, gathering stories of murders without apparent motive and the investigations that finally unravelled them.
2. Signature Killers — Robert D. Keppel Ph.D. with William J. Birnes — The former Washington detective who worked the Bundy case examines signature behaviours — the personal touches that reveal psychology and link crimes across jurisdictions.
3. Zodiac — Robert Graysmith — The definitive account of San Francisco's Zodiac Killer, who taunted police with coded letters through the late 1960s and early 70s — Graysmith's obsessive investigation fills every page.
4. Trail of Havoc: In the Steps of Lord Lucan — Patrick Marnham — A journalist follows the trail of Lord Lucan, who vanished after the 1974 murder of his children's nanny and was never found — one of the great British whodunnits.
5. Journey into Darkness — John Douglas and Mark Olshaker — The FBI's premier profiler goes further into the minds of the most terrifying serial criminals, following Mindhunter with even more disturbing case studies.
6. Green River, Running Red — Ann Rule — Rule's comprehensive account of Gary Ridgway — years of research compressed into a definitive portrait of America's most prolific serial murderer.
7. Murderous Innocents — Frank Jones — True stories of children who kill — one of crime literature's most uncomfortable subjects, handled with forensic care and genuine moral seriousness.
8. Deadlier Than the Male — Terry Manners — Stories of female serial killers, with Manners arguing that society's refusal to accept women as predators allowed these killers to operate far longer than they should have.
9. Murders After Midnight — Martin Fido — Gripping cases from the annals of true crime, selected and narrated by one of Britain's most reliable crime historians.
10. Sex Killers — Nigel Cawthorne — An examination of killers driven by sexual obsession, from the famous to the barely documented — disturbing but rigorously non-sensational in approach.
11. Deadly Jealousy — Martin Fido — True stories of men and women driven by passion to kill — Fido's range across the genre's territory is evident in his second appearance in this box.
12. Depraved — Harold Schechter — The shocking true story of H.H. Holmes, America's first serial killer, who built a hotel of horrors in Chicago for the 1893 World's Fair — Schechter's reconstruction is masterful.
13. Unsolved! Classic True Murder Cases — ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Julian Symons and Colin Wilson — An anthology of great unsolved cases introduced by three of crime writing's most distinguished names — their framing essays are worth the price alone.
14. Appointment for Murder — Susan Crain Bakos — The true story of the killing dentist — a case in which professional access to the vulnerable was exploited with calculated violence.
15. Killer Kids — Cliff Linedecker — Shocking true stories of children who murdered their parents — one of Linedecker's more unsettling investigations across a long true crime career.
16. Crime Strange But True — James Bland — Real-life crimes at their most bizarre — cases that defy conventional motivation and reveal the stranger edges of human violence.
17. The End of the Dream and Other True Cases — Ann Rule — Further case studies from Rule's files, centred on promising lives destroyed by obsession and the violence that followed.
18. Murder at the Priory — Bernard Taylor and Kate Clarke — The mysterious poisoning of Charles Bravo at The Priory in 1876 — one of the great Victorian murder mysteries, exhaustively reconstructed.