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• Murder for Profit (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1926), by William Bolitho (page images at HathiTrust)

• Charlotte Corday, décapitée à Paris le 16 [i.e. seize] juillet 1793, ou, Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire de la vie de cette femme célèbre (Chez le cit. Gilbert, libraire, 1796), by Couet-Gironville (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth, by George Alfred Townsend (Gutenberg text)
• The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth: With a Full Sketch of the Conspiracy of Which He Was the Leader, and the Pursuit, Trial and Execution of His Accomplices (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, ca. 1865), by George Alfred Townsend
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • photocopy edition: page images at HathiTrust
• A complete history of the life and trial of Charles Julius Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield. (Hubbard Bros.; [etc., etc., 1882), by H. G. Hayes, Annie J. Dunmire, C. J. Hayes, and Edmund A. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mordversuch auf Präsident Garfield. = Assassination of President Garfield. Life of the President and of the Guiteau the assassin (Barclay & co., Hrsg., 1881), by Barclay & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trial of Guiteau (Jones Bros., 1882), by John Clark Ridpath (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inauguration souvenir : pictorial history [of] candidates, cabinet officers, ladies of White House, and principal events, 1864-1893. ([s.n.], 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Carolyn Conley (PDF at Ohio State)

• Life of the notorious desperado, Cullen Baker, from his childhood to his death, with a full account of all the murders he committed. (Price and Barton, printers, 1870), by Thomas Orr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and career of the most skillful and noted criminal of his day, Charles Mortimer, (Charles J. Flinn, of Massachusetts) and full confession ([Sacramento, California] : [William H. Mills & Co.], [1873], 1873), by Charley Flinn, Record Steam Book and Job Printing House, and William H. Mills & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• La Vie de Lepage sa carrière criminelle au Canada, dans les états du Vermont et du New-Hampshire, sa conversion, son repentir. (s.n., 1879) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The life and confession of Miner Babcock: : who was executed at Norwich, Connecticut, June 6th, 1816. For the murder of London, a blackman. (Printed by Samuel Green, New-London: for the proprietor of the copy-right, 1816), by Miner Babcock and Samuel Green (page images at HathiTrust)

• The pathetic history of George Barnwell, the London apprentice : who, by keeping company, and following the advice of a woman of the town, named Milwood, was reduced to the lowest pitch of infamy : detailing every particular of his guilty career, from the robbing of his master to the dreadful murder of his uncle! : with the history of Maria, his sweetheart. (Printed by and for Hodgson & Co., No. 10, Newgate Street, 1824), by Robert Cruikshank and Hodgson & Co. (Publishers) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethel Le Neve : her life story ; with the true account of their flight and her friendship for Dr. Crippen ; also startling particulars of her life at Hilldrop Crescent (Published by The Daisy Bank Printing & Pub. Co., 1910), by Ethel Clara Le Neve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Charles Peace, or The Adventures of a Notorious Burglar (Gutenberg ebook)

• Mémoires, révélations et poésies de Lacenaire (Marchands de nouveautés, 1836), by Pierre François Lacenaire and France. Cour d'assises (Seine) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gilles de Rais maréchal de France dit Barbe-Bleue (1404-1440) (H. Champion, 1886), by Eugène Bossard and R. de Maulde-La-Clavière (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Savage, by Samuel Johnson (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Mary Lamb. (Roberts Brothers, 1883), by Anne Gilchrist, John Wilson and Son, and Roberts Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mary Lamb (W.H. Allen & Co., 1883), by Anne Gilchrist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mary Lamb, by Anne Gilchrist (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of Mr. Richard Savage: Who was Condemn'd with Mr. James Gregory, the last Sessions at the Old Baily, for the Murder of Mr. James Sinclair, at Robinson's Coffee-house at Charing-Cross., contrib. by Mr. Beckingham and Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg ebook)

• Miss Mary Blandy's Own Account of the Affair Between Her and Mr. Cranstoun, From the Commencement of Their Acquaintance in the Year 1746 to the Death Of her Father in August 1751, with All the Circumstances Leading to That Unhappy Event (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752), by Mary Blandy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Brooklyn Bridge Shooting: An Independent Review and Assessment (ca. 2000), by American Jewish Committee (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Jesse Harding Pomeroy ([publisher not identified], 1892), by E. Luscomb Haskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of Jesse H. Pomeroy, (Published by J.A. Cummings & Co., 248 Washington Street, 1875), by Jesse Harding Pomeroy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jesse Harding Pomeroy ([publisher not identified], 1892), by E. Luscomb Haskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of Jesse H. Pomeroy, (Published by J.A. Cummings & Co., 248 Washington Street, 1875), by Jesse Harding Pomeroy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Brooklyn Bridge Shooting: An Independent Review and Assessment (ca. 2000), by American Jewish Committee (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Mrs. Victor's life story ([publisher not identified], 1888), by Sarah Maria Victor and Harriet L. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mrs. Victor's life story ([publisher not identified], 1888), by Sarah Maria Victor and Harriet L. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of David Haggart, alias John Wilson, alias John Morison, alias Barney M'Coul, alias John M'Colgan, alias Daniel O'Brien, alias the Switcher: Written by Himself, While Under Sentence of Death (second edition; Edinburgh: W. and C. Tait, 1821), by David Haggart, ed. by George Robertson, contrib. by George Combe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murderer (Printed by and for Hodgson and Co., 10, Newgate Street, 1822), by Robert Cruikshank and Hodgson & Co. (Publishers) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of the notorious desperado, Cullen Baker, from his childhood to his death, with a full account of all the murders he committed. (Price and Barton, printers, 1870), by Thomas Orr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Articles, speeches and poems of Carlyle W. Harris (J.S. Ogilvie, 1893), by Carlyle W. Harris and F. McCready Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The record of crimes in the United States : containing a brief sketch of the prominent traits in the character and conduct of many of the most notorious malefactors, who have been guilty of capital offences; and who have been detected and convicted (H. Faxon & Co., 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The vain prodigal life and tragical penitent death of Thomas Hellier born at Whitchurch near Lyme in Dorset-shire: : who for murdering his master, mistress, and a maid was executed according to law at Westover in Charles City, in the country of Virginia, neer the plantation called Hard Labour, where he perpetrated the said murders. He suffer'd on Munday the 5th of August, 1678. And was after hanged up in chains at Windmill-Point on James River. [. (Printed for Sam. Crouch, at the Princes Arms, a corner-shop of Popes-head-alley in Cornhil, 1680), by Thomas Hellier, Samuel Crouch, and Cutbeard Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cluverius. : My life, trial and conviction. (Andrews, Baptist & Clemmitt, printers, 1887), by Thomas J. Cluverius (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Articles, speeches and poems of Carlyle W. Harris (J.S. Ogilvie, 1893), by Carlyle W. Harris and F. McCready Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murder in all ages : being a history of homicide from the earliest times, with the most celebrated murder cases faithfully reported, arranged under controlling motives and utilized to support the theory of homicidal impulse (A.E. Pinkerton & Co. suite 803, No. 215 Dearborn Street, 1898), by Matthew Worth Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Awful warning to the youth of America (Boston : Printed and published by Charles Gaylord, 1833., 1833), by Henry St. Clair and Charles Gaylord (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethel Le Neve : her life story ; with the true account of their flight and her friendship for Dr. Crippen ; also startling particulars of her life at Hilldrop Crescent (Published by The Daisy Bank Printing & Pub. Co., 1910), by Ethel Clara Le Neve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Five days in the fog (Woman's Publishing Co., 1875), by Harry Granice and Woman's Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Iceman Cometh (1946), by Eugene O'Neill (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Civil death (George F. Nespitt & Co., Printers, 1873), by Paolo Giacometti and Tommaso Salvini (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'Étranger (originally published 1942; this edition c1957), by Albert Camus (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Big Clock (c1946), by Kenneth Fearing (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Ashes to Ashes (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1919), by Isabel Ostrander (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg (Gutenberg text)
• Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Gutenberg text)
• Arthur Mervyn: or, Memoirs of the Year 1793, by Charles Brockden Brown (Gutenberg text)
• McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Frank Norris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Murder of Edwin Drood, Recounted by John Jasper: Being an Attempted Solution of the Mystery Based on Dickens' Manuscript and Memoranda (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), by Percy T. Carden, contrib. by B. W. Matz
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Caleb Williams, or Things As They Are, by William Godwin, contrib. by Ernest A. Baker (Gutenberg text)
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (in German; Berlin: Ullstein, c1920), by Norbert Jacques (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Things As They Are: or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (fourth edition; London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1816), by William Godwin (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Things as they are. (Baudry's European Library, 1832), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rainbow chasers, a story of the plains (Little, Brown, and company, 1904), by John Harvey Whitson, Amy M. Sacker, Arthur E. Becher, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and Brown and Company Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caleb Williams. (Harper & brothers, 1870), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wolfe the robber : the life and extraordinary adventures of Wolfe, the notorious robber and murderer; who was captain of a gang of fifty-three thieves for upwards of thirty years. (Printed by and for Hodgson and Co., 10, Newgate Street, 1822), by Robert Cruikshank and Hodgson & Co. (Publishers) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short stories (New Werner Company, 1908), by Edgar Allan Poe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hans of Iceland (Little, Brown, 1894), by Victor Hugo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. Mabuse, master of mystery : a novel, by Norbert Jacques, trans. by Lilian A. Clare (Gutenberg ebook)
• The trail of the serpent, by M. E. Braddon (Gutenberg ebook)
• The trap, by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg ebook)
• The murderer, by Murray Leinster, illust. by C. C. Senf (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ashes to ashes, by Isabel Ostrander (Gutenberg ebook)
• Captain Shannon, by Coulson Kernahan (Gutenberg ebook)
• The gallery gods, by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg ebook)
• Earth needs a killer, by Bryce Walton, illust. by Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Murderer's chain, by Wenzell Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stroke of Genius, by Randall Garrett, illust. by R. Phillips (Gutenberg ebook)
• The First Man on the Moon, by Alfred Coppel (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pillar of Fire, by Ray Bradbury, illust. by Donel (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Homicidal Diary, by Earl Peirce (Gutenberg ebook)

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