True Crime

The Warren Report

by The President'S Commission On The Assassination Of President Kennedy, President'S Commission On The Assassination Of Presiden and President'S Commission On The Assassination Of President Kennedy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a cruel and shocking act of violence directed against a man, a family…

Thirty Years a Detective

by Allan Pinkerton Read by Mark Harrington 4.3
Detective Allan Pinkerton, creator of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, shares in this book the methods that criminals use to exploit…

Criminal Manchester

by William James McGlothlin Read by Phil Benson 4.8
Follow the Manchester Evening News 'special correspondent' and his guide - recently back from a 'seven stretch' - as they take you on a tour…

The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty

by Sir John Barrow Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the co…

You Can't Win

by Jack Black Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
'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…

Great Detective Stories

by Allan Pinkerton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, wrote a number of "great detective stories", which he claimed were &qu…

Criminal Investigation

by Hans Gross Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …

God Goes to Murderer's Row

by Rev. M. Raymond Read by Maria Therese 4.7
The Hound of Heaven stalks the death house in pursuit of the soul of a modern Dismas in this true story of a doomed criminal who found God i…

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…

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…

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…

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals

by Arthur L. Hayward Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is the second volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled …

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 …

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…

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…

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals

by Arthur L. Hayward Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
"If there be a haunted spot in London it must surely be a few squareyards that lie a little west of the Marble Arch, for in the long co…

The Great Train Robbery

by Jake Arnott 5
Crime of the Century. In the early hours of August 8th 1963, the Royal Mail train from Glasgow to London was held up in the Buckinghamshire …

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…

Black Museum

4.8
Join Orson Welles as he takes you on a captivating journey through the intriguing tales of the Black Museum. This series delves into the dar…

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…

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