Deze serie duikt in de donkerste hoeken van de menselijke natuur en brengt ware moordzaken uit de 20e eeuw aan het licht. Elk deel onderzoekt nauwgezet beruchte misdrijven, de daders erachter en de motivaties die hun daden aanstuurden. Liefhebbers van 'true crime' zullen de gedetailleerde onderzoeken en psychologische portretten waarderen, die deze collectie tot een boeiende, zij het verontrustende, lectuur maken. Het biedt een inkijkje in de geschiedenis van de criminologie en de sinistere geheimen die het verleden verborg.
Witness the most controversial and famous true crime cases that shook the 20th century! These 240 pages retell the love affair that ended the life of prominent architect Stanford White, the New Orleans' Axe-Man and his gruesome killing spree, and the abduction (and resulting media circus) of aviator Charles Lindbergh's son--all collected in a handsome quarter-bound omnibus
Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of robbery and murder, but so many supposedly damning pieces of evidence were questionable that their guilty verdict elicited massive protests around the world. Geary presents readers with all the twists and turns, appeals and dubious evidence after presenting the human faces of the two men - demonised by many and turned to martyrs by many others - in his usual unflappable style.
During the years 1918 and 1919, six people in New Orleans were killed and six more injured, in their homes, in the dead of night, by an axe-wielding intruder who got away without a trace. After more than a year, the killings stopped as suddenly as they started. No trace of the murderer was ever found. Geary presents the facts and the speculations about these attacks in the third in his series on twentieth-century murder.
This specially priced banded set of paperbacks provides an engrossing, illustrated journey into true crime classics of the late Victorian era and early 20th century, including three works in Rick Geary's increasingly storied treasuries of murder: Famous Players, The Lindbergh Child and The Case of Madeleine Smith. These carefully researched presentations of true crime stories, including a bibliography of research sources, present true facts about famous murders as brilliant entertainment.