255pp. A collection of amazing crimes that include Belle Gunness and other sinister characters in chapters such as "The Great Homestead Murders" - two women who disappeared in 1890, their bodies being dug up four years later and sent to a brilliant woman "chemist and microscopist", a pioneer in the forensic field: "Kitty Ging's Buggy Ride" - the murder of a young businesswoman of Minneapolis in 1894; "Professor Leurio & Dr. Rulloff" - the educated murderer who confessed to killing his wife, child and brother-in-law. Also includes The Folklore of American Murder, Notes on Scenes of Crime and Index.

True Crime Criminology Americana