22 books
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1 voter
Listopia > Arthur Chappell's votes on the list My Favourite True Crime Books (25 Books)
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Wall of Silence: The Peculiar Murder of Jim Dawson at Bashall Eaves
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"Making sense of a very strange unsolved murder"
Arthur
rated it 4 stars
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Michigan Murders
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"A brutal series of sex crimes "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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My Life in the Mafia
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"A confession from a leading mafia criminal "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Midnight Express
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"Forget the film, the book tells a very different story "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillon
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"What happened after the escape from Devil's Island "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Papillon
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"A man sent to Devil's Island for life makes repeated attempts to escape "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
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"The notorious East End crime lords "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Beyond Belief: The Moors Murderers: The Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
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"Britain's most infamous child killers - genuinely harrowing "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Forty Years of Murder
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"A pathologist reveals his most famous cases "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Boston Strangler
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"The hunt for Albert De Salvo "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Jack The Ripper
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"Tying the murders to a complex Masonic conspiracy but not ultimately convincing "
Arthur
rated it 3 stars
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Deliver Us from Evil
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"The hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper by a writer who spelt out to the police that he was a lorry driver but got ignored "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Mormon Murders
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"Forgery followed by nail bombing and religious bigotry - really intriguing "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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"The best study of the Charles Manson family "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The World of Violence
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"Wilon tries to explain what violence is "
Arthur
rated it 4 stars
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Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict
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"An assessment of the existing Ripper literature "
Arthur
rated it 2 stars
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The Serial Killers: a Study in the Psychology of Violence [Paperback]
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"self explanatory "
Arthur
rated it 3 stars
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The Mammoth Book of True Crime
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"A very good anthology "
Arthur
rated it 3 stars
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A Criminal History of Mankind
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"murders from prehistory to the late 20th century - impressive "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Untouchables
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Six Against the Rock
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The Valachi Papers
by See Review |
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Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America
by See Review |
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Happy Like Murderers
by See Review |
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The Roman Polanski Story
by See Review |
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