These works of historical true crime are newly available through the Allen County Public Library.
°®¶¹appEden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II°®¶¹app
by Abbott Kahler
°®¶¹appDuring the Great Depression, a Los Angeles oil mogul and his crew of Smithsonian scientists discover a group of European exiles trying to create a utopia in the Galapagos Islands only to find it descended into chaos and murder.
°®¶¹appThe Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld°®¶¹app
by Dan Slater
°®¶¹appDrawn from never-before-seen sources and peopled with unforgettable characters, this epic and often brutal saga of crime and redemption is set in the early 1900s when a strictly off-the-books vice squad called the Incorruptibles waged war on the sin they saw as threatening the future of their New York City community.
°®¶¹appScotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force°®¶¹apps Most Infamous Murder Cases°®¶¹app
by Simon Read
°®¶¹appBased on official case files, contemporary newspaper reporting, trial transcripts and firsthand accounts, a true-crime history of London°®¶¹apps first modern police force tells the tales of some of history°®¶¹apps most notorious murders with cases that proved to be landmarks in the field of criminal inquiry.
°®¶¹appHell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America°®¶¹apps Second Slavery°®¶¹app
by Earl Swift
°®¶¹appThe story of the murder of 11 Black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in 1921, a crime that exposed the peonage system, a form of legal enslavement established after the Civil War across the American South.
°®¶¹appA Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue°®¶¹app
by Dean Jobb
°®¶¹appThis book depicts the true story of one of the world°®¶¹apps most successful burglars, who stole jewels worth $60 million from a Rockefeller, a Woolworth heiress and an oil magnate during the Jazz Age.
°®¶¹appThe Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi°®¶¹app
by Wright Thompson
°®¶¹appA shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long.
