True Crime: A Bibliography


Barker, Richard Hindry. The Fatal Caress, and Other Accounts of English Murders from 1551 to 1888. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce. 

Bledsoe, Jerry. Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder. New York: New American Library, 1989.

Bugliosi, Vincent. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. New York, 1974.

Buss, David M. The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill. New York:
Penguin Books, 2005.

Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. New York: Random House, 1965.

Caputi, Jane. The Age of Sex Crime. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1987.

De Santis, John. For the Color of His Skin: The Murder of Yusuf Hawkins and the Trial of Bensonhurst. New York: Pharos Books, 1991.

Hanchett, William. The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983.

Holbrook, Stewart Hall. Murder Out Yonder: An Informal Study of Certain Classic Crimes in Back-Country America. Glenwood, Illinois: Meyerbrooks, 1989.

Kelleher, Michael D. Murder Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer. Westport, Ct: Praeger, 1998.

Keyes, Daniel. Unveiling Claudia: A True Story of a Serial Murder. New York: Bantam Books, 1987.

Klausner, Lawrence D. Son of Sam. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.

Kleiman, Dena. A Deadly Silence: The Ordeal of Cheryl Pierson, a Case of Incest and Murder. New York: New American Library, L988.

Larsen, Richard W. Bundy, the Deliberate Strangler. New York: Simon And Schuster, 1980.

Lee, Henry C. Famous Crimes Revisited: From Sacco-Vanzetti to O.J. Simpson. Southington, CT: Strong Books, 2001.

McDonald, R. Robin. Black Widow. New York: St. Martins Press, 1987.

McGinnis, Joe. Blind Faith. New York: Putnam, 1989.

McGinnis, Joe. Fatal Vision. New York: New American Library, 1983.

Naifeh, Steven W. The Mormon Murders: A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit, and Death. New York: New American Library, 1989.

OBrien, Darcy. Murder in Little Egypt. New York, 1989.

Olsen, Jack. Cold Kill: The True Story of a Murderous Love. New York: Dell, 1988.

Provost, Gary. Without Mercy: Obsession and Murder Under the Influence. New York: Pocket Books, 1989.

Ressler, Robert K. I Have Lived in the Monster. New York: St. Martins 
Press, 1997.

Revkin, Andrew. The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.

Rule, Ann. Dead by Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Rule, Ann. Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder. New York: New American Library, 1987.

Salerno, Steve. Deadly Blessing. New York: Morrow, 1987.

Schwarz, Ted. The Hillside Strangler: A Murderer's Mind. New York:
New American Library, 1982.

Sessions, Shelley. Dark Obsession: A True Story of a Father's Crime and a Daughter's Terror. New York: Berkley Books, 1990.

Tanenbaum, Robert. The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer. New York: New American Library, 1987.

Tatar, Maria M. Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Trillin, Calvin. Killings. New York: Penguin Books, 1985.

Van Hoffman, Eric. A Venom in the Blood. New York: Donald I Fine, 1990.

Walker, Leslie. Sudden Fury: A True Story of Adoption and Murder. New York: St. Martins Press, 1989.

Whitfield, Stephen J. A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till. New York: Free Press, 1988.

Williams, Emlyn. Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and Its Detection. New York: Random House, 1968.

Wolfe, Linda. The Professor and the Prostitute: And Other Tales of Murder and Madness. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

Wolfe, Linda. Wasted: The Preppie Murder. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1989.

Yalkowsky, Stanley. The Murder of the Rosenbergs. 1990.