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• An account of the behaviour, confession and last dying speech of Sir John johnson: who was executed at Tyburn, on Tuesday the 23d day of December. anno Dom. 1690. for stealing of Mrs. Mary VVharton, in company of Captain james Campbel and Archibald Montgomery, since fled. ([[Edinburgh] : Re-printed in the year, 1691]), by John Johnston (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the apprehending and bringing to condigne punishment, all such lewd persons as shall steale, sell, buy, inveigle, purloyne, convey, or receive any little children And for the strict and diligent search of all ships and other vessels on the river, or at the Downes. Die Veneris, 9. Maii. 1645. (London : Printed for John Wright at the signe of the Kings-head in the Old-baily, May 9. 1644. [i.e. 1645]), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proceedings. 1645-05-09 (London : printed for John Wright at the signe of the Kings-head in the Old-baily, May 9. 1645), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Capt. Johnson's last farewel to the world. ([London] : Printed for Charles Bates, at the Bible and Sun in Pye-Corner, [1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter from Jamaica, to a friend in London, concerning kid-napping. ([S.l. : s.n., 1682]), by T. M (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true and perfect account of the examination, confession, trial, condemnation and execution of Joan Perry, and her two sons, John and Richard Perry, for the supposed murder of Will. Harrison, Gent Being one of the most remarkable occurrences which hath happened in the memory of man. Sent in a letter (by Sir Thomas Overbury, of Burton, in the county of Gloucester, Knt. and one of His Majesty's justices of the peace) to Thomas Shirly, Doctor of physick, in London. Also Mr. Harrison's own account how he was conveyed to Turky, and there made a slave above 2 years, when his master (who bought him there) dying, he return'd to England; in the mean while, supposed to be murdered by his man-servant, who falsly accused his own mother and brother as guilty of the same, and were all three executed for it on Broadway-Hills, in Gloucestershire. (London : printed for John Atkinson, near the chapter-house, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, [1676]), by Thomas Overbury and William Harrison (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Case of Richard Taylor, Esq; a member of the honourable the House of Commons, concerning Hannah Knight, an infant. ([London : s.n., 1696]), by Richard Taylor and John Clerkson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• At the court at Whitehall, December the thirteenth, 1682. Present the Kings most excellent Majesty, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... [19 others] Mr. Godolphin. Whereas it has been represented to His Majesty, that by reason of the frequent abuses of a lewd sort of people called spirits, in seducing many of His Majesties subjects to go on shipboard, where they have been seized and carried by force to His Majesties plantations in America ... (London, : Printed by the Assigns of John Bill deceas'd: And by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty., 1682.), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) and King Charles II of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A letter from Jamaica, to a friend in London, concerning kid-napping. ([S.l. : s.n., 1682]), by T. M (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Proceedings. 1645-05-09 (London : printed for John Wright at the signe of the Kings-head in the Old-baily, May 9. 1645), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An ordinance for continuation of one act of Parliament,: entituled, An act for redemption of captives. Saturday the 24. of December 1653. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector, and His Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Hen. Scobell, Clerk of the Council. (London : Printed by Hen. Hills, Printer to His Highness the Lord Protector, MDCLIII. [1653]), by England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) and England and Wales. Council of State (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Charles the Second, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, defender of the faith, &c. To all and singular archbishops, bishops, arch-deacons, deanes, and their officials ... Whereas a great number of our good subjects peaceably following their employments at sea, have been seen lately taken by the Turkish pyrates, under whom they now remain in most cruel, and inhumane bondage ... (London, : Printed by Thomas Milbourn dwelling in Jewen-Street,, Anno. Dom. 1670.), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) and England and Wales Privy Council (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The tryals of Haagen Swendsen, Sarah Baynton, [braces] John Hartwell and John Spurr : for feloniously stealing Mrs Pleasant Rawlins, a virgin and heiress of a considerable fortune : with an intent to cause and procure the said Pleasant Rawlins against her will, to marry the said Haagen Swendsen at the Queens Bench Bar at Westminster November 25, 1702 : before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Holt ... of which fact the said Haagen Swendsen and Sarah Baynton were found guilty, and the said Swendsen was executed for the same, Decemb. 9th following : the said Baynton being with child was reprieved after sentence. (Printed for Isaac Cleave next Serjeants Inn in Chancery-Lane, 1703), by Haagen Swendsen, John Spurr, John Hartwell, and Sarah Baynton (page images at HathiTrust)

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• True tales of kidnapings in America -- in China -- in Mexico (Business Bourse Press, 1932), by Justine Mansfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voices from Alcatraz; the authentic inside story of the Urschel kidnapping. (Naylor Co., 1947), by Ernest E. Kirkpatrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The father's story of Charley Ross, the kidnapped child : containing a full and complete account of the abduction of Charles Brewster Ross from the home of his parents in Germantown, with the pursuit of the abductors and their tragic death; the various incidents connected with the search for the lost boy; the discovery of other lost children [etc.] (J.E. Potter and company, 1876), by Christian K. Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kinderraub (Buchdruckerei Stämpfli, 1915), by Edmund L. von Wurstemberger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charley Ross: the kidnapped child. (Published for the author, 1878), by Christian K. Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Camp Fire Girls on the march (Saalfield Pub. Co., 1914), by Jane L. Stewart and Saalfield Pub. Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kidnapped: being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751. (Scribner, 1922), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stephen (T.Y. Crowell, 1908), by Eva Annie Madden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political kidnapings, 1968-73; a staff study. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1973), by United States House Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime, kidnaping and prison laws. (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1935), by United States and Elmer A. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime, kidnaping and prison laws. (Washington, 1936), by United States and Elmer A. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Peter Williamson (Printed for and sold by the booksellers, 1792), by Peter Williamson and John Gribbel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kidnapped: being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 (...) ; Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes (Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1900), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lindbergh kidnapping case (Derby, Connecticut : Monarch Books, Inc., 1961., 1961), by Ovid Demaris, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Inc Monarch Books, and New Jersey. Court of Oyer and Terminer (Hunterdon County) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The kidnappers (Ward, Lock, 1927), by Peter Blundell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mysteries of the missing, by Edward H. Smith (Gutenberg ebook)

• At random run : a comedy-drama in three acts (Walter H. Baker, 1906), by Gordon V. May (page images at HathiTrust)

• Choosers of the Slain (included on the Unto the Breach Baen CD image; c2006), by John Ringo
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• Castle of Wolfenbach (2 volumes; London: Printed for W. Lane, 1793), by Eliza Parsons (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Castle of Wolfenbach, by Eliza Parsons (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Huntingtower, by John Buchan (Gutenberg text)
• Marie Bertrand: or, The Felon's Daughter (originally published 1864), by Horatio Alger (text at Wayback Machine)
• The Secret of Sarek (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1920), by Maurice Leblanc, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Secret of Sarek (New York: Macaulay, c1920), by Maurice Leblanc, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sheik, by E. M. Hull (Gutenberg text)
• The Sheik: A Novel (Boston: Small, Maynard, and Co., c1921), by E. M. Hull
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Witness, by Margaret Johnson (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Castle Gay (1930), by John Buchan (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Hounds of God (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, c1928), by Rafael Sabatini (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century, by Georgette Heyer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century (1921 Houghton Mifflin edition, with added illustrations), by Georgette Heyer (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Man of the Forest, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Facing the Flag (New York: The Federal Book Company, 1897), by Jules Verne (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• Facing the Flag (New York: F. M. Lupton, 1897), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg HTML)
• Kidnapped / being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 ... written by himself (C. Scribner's sons, 1905), by Robert Louis Stevenson and Janice Dohm (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lion's share (Bobbs-Merrill company, 1907), by Octave Thanet, T. M. Cleland, E. M. Ashe, and Bobbs-Merrill Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kidnapped; : being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751, (Harper & Bros., 1921), by Robert Louis Stevenson, Tom Sommerfeld, Elinore Sommerfeld, and Louis Rhead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kidnapped : the adventures of David Balfour (Scribner, 1982), by Robert Louis Stevenson and N. C. Wyeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shaken down (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1925), by Alice MacGowan, Perry Newberry, and Frederick A. Stokes Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The castle of dawn (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1908), by Harold Morton Kramer, H. C. Edwards, Norwood Press, and Lee and Shepard Co Lothrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confessional of the Black Penitents (printed for A.W. Newman and Co., 1828), by Ann Radcliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mary Moreland: or The fortunes and misfortunes of an orphan. (Gleason's Publishing Hall, 1845), by B. Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kidnapped (H. Altemus, 1898), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kidnapped : being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 ... (Cassell & Co., 1886), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kidnapped (Macmillan, 1917), by Robert Louis Stevenson and John Thompson Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kidnapped : being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), by Robert Louis Stevenson and N. C. Wyeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kidnapped : being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 (Scribner, 1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kidnapped : being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1851 ... (Current literature publishing co., 1909), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kidnapped (Scott, Foresman and Company, 1914), by Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Willis Leonard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. (Scribner, 1899), by Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Lloyd Osbourne, Sidney Colvin, and Graham Balfour (page images at HathiTrust)
• The song of the pines (The C.M. Clark Publishing Company, 1909), by E. S. Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The unraveling of a tangle (Benziger Brothers, 1903), by Marion Ames Taggart and Benziger Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Call of the west (Grosset & Dunlap, 1933), by Rutherford G. Montgomery and Skrenda (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murder gone Minoan (New York : Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran, & Co., Inc., 1939., 1939), by Clyde B. Clason, Country Life Press, and Doran & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sob sister (Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931), by Mildred Evans Gilman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kidnapped: being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 (...) ; Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes (Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1900), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emerald necklace (Wheaton, Illinois : Van Kampen Press, [1950], 1950), by Elise Fraser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Italian, Volume 1 (of 3) : or, the confessional of the Black Penitents, by Ann Ward Radcliffe (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Italian, Volume 2 (of 3) : or, the confessional of the Black Penitents, by Ann Ward Radcliffe (Gutenberg ebook)
• John Brent, by Theodore Winthrop (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dynasty of the lost, by George O. Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• The avenger, by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg ebook)
• The lion's share, by Octave Thanet, illust. by E. M. Ashe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Traitor's Choice, by Paul W. Fairman, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Scarlet Shoulders; or, The Miner Rangers, by Jos. E. Badger (Gutenberg ebook)
• Amour, Amour, Dear Planet!, by Mark Clutter, illust. by Kelly Freas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Through the Desert, by Henryk Sienkiewicz, trans. by Mary W. Artois (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rainbolt, the Ranger; or, The Aerial Demon of the Mountain, by Oll Coomes (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Disappearance of Kimball Webb, by Rowland Wright (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Saint of the Dragon's Dale: A Fantastical Tale, by William Stearns Davis, illust. by Margaret West Kinney and Troy Kinney (Gutenberg ebook)
• Butterfly 9, by Donald Keith, illust. by Jack Gaughan (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cripps, the Carrier: A Woodland Tale, by R. D. Blackmore (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Pirate: Andrew Lang Edition, by Walter Scott, ed. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Stolen Statesman: Being the Story of a Hushed Up Mystery, by William Le Queux (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Blue Lights: A Detective Story, by Frederic Arnold Kummer, illust. by Will Grefé (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Pursuit, by Frank Savile, illust. by Herman Pfeifer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Door into Infinity, by Edmond Hamilton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times, by George Alfred Townsend (Gutenberg ebook)
• From the Valley of the Missing, by Grace Miller White (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Stolen Singer, by Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg ebook)

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