True Crime

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

by William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A collection of true stories of the high seas, from the nineteenth century. Shipwrecks, mutiny, life and death decision-making -- all far fr…

The Pirates Own Book

by Charles Ellms Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of some of history's most notorious sea robbers. This coll…

Celebrated Crimes

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.5
This story chronicles the crimes of Antoine-Francois Desrues (also called "Derues") from his childhood to his execution. Desrues c…

Nisida

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.5
This story details the many crimes (attempted rape, assault, filicide, etc.) surrounding a significant historical confrontation between a fi…

Criminal Investigation

by Hans Gross Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …

You Can't Win

by Jack Black Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
'You Can't Win' is an autobiography that was serialized in the San Francisco Call and Post (1925). It became so popular that it was publishe…

A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates

by Fanny Loviot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This thrilling narrative recounts the true story of Fanny Loviot, a wealthy, young French girl who was kidnapped at sea. After setting sail …

I Worked for Lucky Luciano

by Anonymous Read by Michele Fry 4.3
A few years after the fall of Chicago’s Al Capone in 1931, Italian born gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano took the throne as the American Maf…

The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

by George Alfred Townsend Read by Delmar H Dolbier 4.4
A series of articles by the New York World newspaper's special correspondent covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, its background a…

Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies

by Charles G. Mutzenberg Read by Roger Melin 4
As this book will show, there have been a variety of clashes and feuds which have taken place in and near Kentucky over the years, primarily…

A General History of the Pyrates

by Captain Charles Johnson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of c…

Red Rubber

by Edmund Dene Morel Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Morel explains the history and formation of the Congo Free State, owned by King Leopold II. However, Morel, a humanitarian, focuses on the a…

Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts

by Thomas Holmes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Thomas Holmes served for 20 years as a police court missionary for the London courts. Police court missionaries, often sponsored by temperan…

Poison Romance And Poison Mysteries

by Charles John Samuel Thompson Read by David Wales 4.2
A writer and physician, Charles John Samuel Thompson wrote several works on poisons which are still consulted today. He is especially infor…

Celebrated Crimes

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.6
This story details the crimes and trial surrounding the unexpected pregnancy and subsequent childbirth of the Countess de Saint-Geran in 164…

Darkness and Daylight

by Lyman Abbott, Thomas Byrnes, Helen S. Campbell and Thomas Wallace Knox Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, ske…

The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt

by David Miller DeWitt Read by Delmar H Dolbier 4.2
April, 1865 -- The war ended and throughout the Northern States joy and relief reigned. Then, less than a week later, a thunderbolt: the p…

The Smoke Eaters

by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins Read by Lee Smalley 4.7
This book vividly brings to life the unimaginable risks of fire-fighting and the bravery and personal interactions of Captain Meaghan and th…

History of the Johnstown Flood

by Willis Fletcher Johnson Read by Tatiana Chichilla 4.5
An account of the Johnstown Flood, the most devastating loss of civilian life in the United States prior to the terrorist attacks of Septemb…

Holmes' Own Story

by Herman W. Mudgett Read by Anautumnous 4.3
An account written by the infamous serial murderer H. H. Holmes in an attempt to exonerate himself while being tried for numerous crimes in …

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