Henry Carter Hull

You've never read a Ripper book like this. Christian was born in 1852. He carried out a sexual attack on a local girl and so fled to London to avoid being lynched. He and best friend Jimmy became trainee surgeons with a nefarious organization (The Firm). Both men fell in love with the same woman. Christian later illegally married her and further on became a whoremaster. In 1888, after he found out his wife had had a long sexual affair (and a child)...

Get the Summary of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson intertwines the stories of two men during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair: Daniel Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a charismatic serial killer who exploited the fair to find his victims. As Chicago wins the bid to host the World's...

A federal judge is executed in New Orleans. An unknown assassin hangs him from a giant oak tree in Audubon Park. A female reporter happens upon the scene soon after it happens and scoops this sensational story for her newspaper. She attempts to follow up story but finds the police baffled. She meets and falls in love with an older FBI agent assigned to the case. Michael Bannister, the antihero, is embittered and frustrated at the federal judicial...

On 30 March 1896, a bargeman hooked a parcel from the river Thames at Caversham. Inside the brown paper package was the body of a baby girl - she had been strangled with tape. When two more tiny bodies were found in a carpetbag, the police launched a nationwide hunt for a serial killer. A faint name and address on the sodden wrapping provided Reading police with their first clue. Can Chief Constable George Tewsley and his colleagues catch this heartless...

Growing up on the poor side of glitzy Hollywood, Loren Neestrom has developed into a handsome young man worthy of a big-screen idol. But beneath his good looks lies another side, too dark even for Hollywood. Raised by a deranged mother, he is torn between their incestuous relationship and the drive to realize his secret desire... a diabolical plot to kidnap and kill two boys. Steve Bell and his nerdy sidekick, Rick Shoeman, are carefree kids coming-of-age....

Macabros. Historias de asesinos despiadados que intentaron el crimen perfecto, de César Biernay Arriagada, reúne siete crímenes que en distintas fechas estremecieron a la sociedad chilena, debido a lo espeluznantes y a las dificultades que, en cada caso, se presentaron al esclarecerlos. En este último sentido se diría que sus hechores estuvieron a punto de alcanzar el ideal del crimen perfecto. Afortunadamente no fue así gracias a la dedicación...

A serial killer wants to be the best. He turns a yellow cab into a killing machine and writes a letter to the leading sports writer in NYC telling him he is going to kill one person a week. This will send the City into a panic. He picks, as his victims prominent New Yorkers, his former classmates from prep school and some random elderly people. Ian MacDonald, a seasoned Assistant District Attorney in the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorneys...

Albert Fish held the genuine belief that the murders he committed were upon instruction from God. Peter Stumpp, who started practicing the "wicked arts from twelve years of age", was convinced he was a werewolf. There are many more murderous individuals like them. Supernatural Serial Killers explores the association between serial killers and the supernatural. The crimes committed by these men and women usually involved sexual deviance, cannibalism...

Among the thirty-four cases covered are: Pamela Smart, a volunteer at a high school drug awareness program, who urged her fifteen-year-old lover and his friends to kill her husband; Nancy Kissel, an expat American in Hong Kong, who served her investment banker husband a strawberry milkshake laced with drugs, then clubbed him to death with a statue; and Celeste Beard, whose husband was disemboweled by her lesbian lover.

A serial killer haunts the streets of Dayton, Ohio, leaving a trail of women's bodies in their wake. Two men can stop it, but one is not the hero you would expect. Charlie, a serial killer himself, is forced into an investigation he's being accused of. Detective Chance Roning is hot on his trail, forcing Charlie to fend for his very existence. An adventure like no other, you will sit on the edge of your seat as you fly through the pages to discover...