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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier (version 2)
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Alexandre Dumas
This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to hi…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 1: Ali Pacha
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Alexandre Dumas
Ali Tepeleni, Pacha of Janina, rose to power during the early 1800s in one of the Ottoman Empire’s most unruly territories (Albania). His fe…
Criminal Manchester: Experiences of a Special Correspondent
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William James Mcglothlin
Follow the Manchester Evening News 'special correspondent' and his guide - recently back from a 'seven stretch' - as they take you on a tour…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 1: Joan of Naples
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Alexandre Dumas
The celebrated crimes committed during the life of Joan (Joanna I) of Naples span from personal misdeeds (adulteries and mariticide) to regi…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask
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Alexandre Dumas
In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, wh…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 2: Countess de Saint-Geran
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Alexandre Dumas
This story details the crimes and trial surrounding the unexpected pregnancy and subsequent childbirth of the Countess de Saint-Geran in 164…
Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy …
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The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a cruel and shocking act of violence directed against a man, a family…
The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
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George Alfred Townsend
A series of articles by the New York World newspaper's special correspondent covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, its background a…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 1: The Marquise de Brinvilliers
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Alexandre Dumas
The crimes of the Marquise of Brinvilliers, a French aristocrat during the reign of Louis XIV, included some of the most famous murders, sca…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida
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Alexandre Dumas
This story details the many crimes (attempted rape, assault, filicide, etc.) surrounding a significant historical confrontation between a fi…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Part 2: La Constantin
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Alexandre Dumas
Dumas chronicles the court intrigues that led to the execution of Marie La Roux Constantin. La dame Constantin was known by French nobility …
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand (version 2)
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Alexandre Dumas
This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story o…
The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 2
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Arthur Griffiths
Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the line…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre
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Alexandre Dumas
Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guer…
The Romance of Piracy
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Edward Keble Chatterton
The Library of Romance is a series of books concerning the romance of scientific facts, be it biology, chemistry, history, or politics. This…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 3: The Marquise de Ganges
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Alexandre Dumas
The assassination of Diane de Joannis de Chateaublanc (the Marquise de Ganges) is a fitting tale to conclude Dumas’ celebrated crimes series…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 3: Murat
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Alexandre Dumas
Amidst the political winds from Napoleon’s downfall, this tale turns our attention to the flight of a former French marshal and King of Napl…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 2: Vaninka
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Alexandre Dumas
The story of Vaninka, generally regarded as the most fictionalized of Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes series, occurs during the short and eccentric…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Derues, La Constantin
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Alexandre Dumas
Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crim…
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for…
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Arthur L. Hayward
This is the third volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled b…