True Crime Classics: 7 Books on Notorious Cases and Criminals
Victorian Cases of Murder, Fraud, Detection, and Criminal CelebrityBy Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Unknown, Clifton R. Wooldridge, George Mac Gregor, James Blake Bailey, Thomas Daniels
Length61h 46m
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True Crime Classics: 7 Books on Notorious Cases and Criminals gathers seven historical accounts of crime, investigation, and public fascination with transgression. Moving between case narrative, biographical portraiture, documentary compilation, and moral commentary, the volume illuminates the literary forms through which notorious offenders and celebrated trials were made intelligible to their contemporaries. Its range is a particular strength: dramatic reconstructions sit beside archival-minded chronicles, while accounts of criminal lives expose the shifting boundary between sensational entertainment, legal record, and social history. The contributors—including Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Clifton R. Wooldridge, George Mac Gregor, James Blake Bailey, Thomas Daniels, and anonymous voices—represent distinct traditions of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular, literary, and antiquarian writing. Collectively, they participate in the development of true-crime literature as a mode shaped by journalism, biography, courtroom culture, and the expanding appetite for narratives of detection and deviance. Their differing emphases preserve not one authoritative account of criminality but a revealing history of how crime was narrated, judged, and remembered. This anthology is recommended for readers of crime writing, legal history, and cultural studies. It offers an unusually broad opportunity to compare styles, assumptions, and evidentiary practices within one volume, encouraging critical reflection on the enduring dialogue between fact, storytelling, morality, and public curiosity.
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GenreTrue Crime, Mystery and Thriller
Length61 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The History of Burke and Hare, and of the Resurrectionist Times
26CHAPTER IV.
2PREFACE.
27CHAPTER VII.
3CHAPTER II.
28CHAPTER X.
4CHAPTER VI.
29CHAPTER XII.
5CHAPTER X.
30CHAPTER IV.
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6CHAPTER XV.
31CHAPTER VI.
7CHAPTER XX.
32BOOK III.
8CHAPTER XXIV.
33CHAPTER IV.
9CHAPTER XXVIII.
34BOOK IV.
10CHAPTER XXXII.
35CHAPTER III.
11CHAPTER XXXVI.
36CHAPTER V.
12CHAPTER XL.
37CHAPTER IX.
13APPENDIX
38CHAPTER XI.
14The Crimes of Alexander Borgia
39CHAPTER III.
15Preface
40CHAPTER V.
16BOOK FIRST.
41CHAPTER VIII.
17BOOK SECOND.
42The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan, or: the Headless Horror
18BOOK THIRD.
43The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan, or: the Headless Horror
19BOOK FOURTH.
44BIG EMBEZZLEMENTS.
20BOOK FIFTH.
45HE TURNED STATE'S EVIDENCE.
21The Affecting Case of the Unfortunate Thomas Daniels
46THE RESULT OF AN EXAMINATION OF JACKSON, BY THE BERTILLION SYSTEM, AFTER HIS ARREST FOR THE MURDER OF PEARL BRYAN.
22LONDON
47PICKED OUT OF A THOUSAND.
23Eugene Aram — Complete
48WAS IT FATE OR WAS IT DESTINE?
24EUGENE ARAM
49The History of the Tragedy. (pt. 1)
25CHAPTER II.
50The History of the Tragedy. (pt. 2)
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