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The World's Greatest Horrors & Crimes
A collection of the most infamous murders, crimes of passion and unsolved mysteries. This book reveals the astonishing, known facts about real acts of villainy...and it probes the fascinating, missing facts that confound the law and are kept in a file marked 'unsolved'. Although we still regard them as a horrifying crimes, most murders are unpremeditated acts committed in a brief moment of rage. But, there are other murders that are more sinister motivated by greed, or to gratify perverted desires. This book considers the compulsions of the Yorkshire Ripper, the casual shootings by Bonnie and Clyde and the inexplicable sadism of the Moors Murderers. It also tells the stories of crimes committed in the frenzies and frustrations of love - violent and tragic endings to a love story that has gone wrong. Passion, jealousy, revenge, and despair are the themes, and the eternal triangle is often the pattern. Here are true-life tales of romance, mystery and horror!
576 pages, Paperback
First published August 25, 2014
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May 11, 2020
Never judge a book by its cover. Cos what’s inside can be much better than what’s on the cover. Now this is a book that proves it.
An interesting compilation of over 100 cases from 19th century and early 20th century. A couple of cases dated back to as far as 17th century. The few from 1980s didn’t spoil the fun at all. What I like about this is the absence of the stories that were told over and over and over again. There are worst killers than Dahmer and Ridgeway, yet no one seems to talk about them. Also, there’s very little spoken about the cases that happens outside America, unless of course it’s the holocaust. This book writes a lot about those cases and that’s something I quite like about it.
The structure of the book is also quite interesting. Forwarded in three parts depending on the nature of the crimes, it is able to capture the attention of the reader. The wide coverage of Europe across England, France, Germany, Italy, even going as far as Kenya and Canada is extremely interesting.
Apart from the few printing mistakes it’s a well written book. The way the mind works when it comes to crime is truly astonishing. First rule to learn is never shag someone else’s other half, it always ends up bloody.
2020 Poposugar reading challenge - The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed
Books in the time of Covid-19 #11
Book 28 of 2020
An interesting compilation of over 100 cases from 19th century and early 20th century. A couple of cases dated back to as far as 17th century. The few from 1980s didn’t spoil the fun at all. What I like about this is the absence of the stories that were told over and over and over again. There are worst killers than Dahmer and Ridgeway, yet no one seems to talk about them. Also, there’s very little spoken about the cases that happens outside America, unless of course it’s the holocaust. This book writes a lot about those cases and that’s something I quite like about it.
The structure of the book is also quite interesting. Forwarded in three parts depending on the nature of the crimes, it is able to capture the attention of the reader. The wide coverage of Europe across England, France, Germany, Italy, even going as far as Kenya and Canada is extremely interesting.
Apart from the few printing mistakes it’s a well written book. The way the mind works when it comes to crime is truly astonishing. First rule to learn is never shag someone else’s other half, it always ends up bloody.
2020 Poposugar reading challenge - The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed
Books in the time of Covid-19 #11
Book 28 of 2020
September 8, 2015
We all have those family members who like to lumber you with things once they find out about your interest.
Well this book came from my aunt when she found out about my interest in forensic psychology. Supposedly I need to become an expert in the criminal world – mainly I need to be able to recite the heinous acts of countless individuals across history.
Okay, maybe she did not put it like that but it sort of felt that way when she handed me numerous books on the topic.
Still, despite the fact that such a thing can be viewed as being exceptionally weird, the books she gave me were all interesting reads. This one included. It is educational (even if it is not the kind of topic you would want to teach at school) and an interesting read.
Whilst not my usual I rather enjoyed reading the details of this book.
Well this book came from my aunt when she found out about my interest in forensic psychology. Supposedly I need to become an expert in the criminal world – mainly I need to be able to recite the heinous acts of countless individuals across history.
Okay, maybe she did not put it like that but it sort of felt that way when she handed me numerous books on the topic.
Still, despite the fact that such a thing can be viewed as being exceptionally weird, the books she gave me were all interesting reads. This one included. It is educational (even if it is not the kind of topic you would want to teach at school) and an interesting read.
Whilst not my usual I rather enjoyed reading the details of this book.
January 20, 2019
A compilation of 3 books written in the '80's chronicling 'Unsolved Crimes', 'Infamous Murders' and 'Crimes of Passion' but published in 2014. It's a bit outdated (the author mentions looking forward to the release of the Jack the Ripper files in 1994, for example) but still relatively enjoyable. It focus on more obscure cases in particular crimes in South Africa and France, which don't get much attention these days.
Overall, enjoyable (as far as a book on crime goes) but the sheer density of the book (600 pages about 200 crimes) means a lot of it gets muddled into one crime in your head but still a decent read to pick up every now and again.
Overall, enjoyable (as far as a book on crime goes) but the sheer density of the book (600 pages about 200 crimes) means a lot of it gets muddled into one crime in your head but still a decent read to pick up every now and again.
September 17, 2016
If you are a fan of Horror and true criminal stories then this book is for you! A very exciting book filled with astonishing tales! Horrifying and super dramatic!
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