Crime Casebook: True-Life Crime Stories from the World's Favorite Magazine

by Reader's Digest Association

More than three hundred full-color illustrations and photographs highlight a close-up look at thirty-four cases of real-life crime and detection, including such accounts as "The Case of the Rolex Murder," "Dirty Diamonds," and "Fear on the Highway," in which a manhunt begins to find a serial killer in the Australian Outback.

Genres: True Crime, Nonfiction, Crime

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. is a global media and direct marketing company based in Chappaqua, New York, best known for its flagship publication founded in 1922, Reader's Digest. The company's headquarters are in New York City, where it moved from Pleasantville, New York.

The company was founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace in 1922 with the first publication of Reader's Digest magazine, but has grown to include a diverse range of magazines, books, music, DVDs and online content.

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 2 out of 5]

Basically a filler-read as I wait for the libraries to eventually reopen. Some of the stories were decent, though I got this weird feeling that they were written by the same group of people. I liked the murder mysteries the best, much less so the drug/kidnapping and other types. I enjoy finding out how a killer is tracked down, by some little piece of evidence or a sleuth putting two items together. Most of the stories seemed British, though crimes scenes were world-wide.

[Martha Greally · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you like true crime, you’ll like this. It’s good as well because it’s lesser known stories rather than the more famous ones most people have heard of. They’re all older ones as I think it must have come out in the 90’s but I liked that too.

[Sofface · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not a bad little collection of criminal stories.
Looking forward to reading the second one.

[Erica · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars...pretty dated but still interesting...had to look up a lot of stories for updates...some misogyny and use of "Indians" in one story :/

[Jen · Rating 2 out of 5]

PopSugar challenge: a book with something broken on the cover

[Anne Marshall · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting and extremely well written.

[Fishface · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always like the these condensed versions -- they lead me to so many complete books I might want to read later on. The editors never seem to choose a dull case, either.