True Crime
Explore true crime with these tales full of murder, assassination, theft and forgery, from different historical periods up to the present day.
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The Rope
The paths of anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells and an innovative white detective merge as they seek justice for a young girl murdered and a Black man wrongly accused of the crime.
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When Women Kill
Through a uniquely feminist lens, Zeran meticulously reconstructs four murders committed by Chilean women in the 20th century and how they have been represented in the aftermath.
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Who Killed Jane Stanford?
A historian takes a deep dive into the 1905 death by poisoning of the wealthiest woman in San Francisco, and offers a lively portrait of an era that enabled her murder to be concealed.
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From A Whisper to A Rallying Cry
This extensively researched account retells the tragic 1982 murder that led to the first federal civil rights trial involving a crime against an Asian American.
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