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• The Last Public Execution in America, by Perry T. Ryan (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

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• The Last Public Execution in America, by Perry T. Ryan (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• A Book of Remarkable Criminals, by H. B. Irving (Gutenberg text)
• A Book of Scoundrels, by Charles Whibley
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• She Stands Accused, by Victor MacClure (HTML at Virginia)

• She Stands Accused, by Victor MacClure (HTML at Virginia)

• Celebrated Claimants, From Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1874) (Gutenberg text)

• Memoirs of ****, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar, a Reputed Native of Formosa, Written by Himself, in Order to be Published After His Death (London: Printed for R. Davis, et al., 1765), by George Psalmanazar (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Know Thy Enemy: Profiles of Adversary Leaders and Their Strategic Cultures (second edition, 2003), ed. by Barry R. Schneider and Jerrold M. Post (PDF files at af.mil)

• The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why? (1999), by Rex A. Hudson (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh, A Penal Exile in Australia, 1825-1844 (1929 text), by James Tucker (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• Ralph Rashleigh (1952 text), by James Tucker (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• The Life of Savage, by Samuel Johnson (HTML at jacklynch.net)

• 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)

• 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)

• Intentions (London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg text)
• Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks (New York: Brentano's, 1905), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Percival Pollard
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Capt. Cranstoun's Account of the Poisoning the Late Mr. Francis Blandy, of Henley upon Thames, Oxfordshire (London: Printed for R. Richards, ca. 1752), contrib. by Mary Blandy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and Bloody Career of the Executed Criminal, James Copeland, the Great Southern Land Pirate (second edition; Jackson, MS: Pilot Pub. Co., 1874), by J. R. S. Pitts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life and Confession of the Noted Outlaw, James Copeland, Executed at Augusta, Perry County, Mississippi (c1909), by J. R. S. Pitts (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• The Autobiography of a Criminal (New York: Duffield and Co., 1930), by Henry Tufts, ed. by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro, Who Was Executed at New-Haven, on the 20th Day of October, 1790, for a Rape, Committed on the 26th Day of May Last (New Haven, CT: T. and S. Green, 1790), by Joseph Mountain, ed. by David Daggett (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Trials and Confessions of Madison Henderson, Alias Blanchard, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown, Murderers of Jesse Baker and Jacob Weaver, as Given by Themselves; and A Likeness of Each, Taken in Jail Shortly after Their Arrest (St. Louis: Chambers and Knapp, 1841), ed. by A. B. Chambers, contrib. by Madison Henderson, James W. Seward, Alfred Amos Warrick, and Charles Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Last Words and Dying Speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro Man (1795), by Edmund Fortis (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Life, and Dying Speech of Arthur, a Negro Man, Who Was Executed at Worcester, October 10, 1768, For a Rape Committed on the Body of One Deborah Metcalfe (1768), by Arthur (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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

• Through the Shadows With O. Henry (New York: H. K. Fly Co., c1921), by Al Jennings
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Vida y Aventuras del Más Célebre Bandido Sonorense, Joaquín Murrieta, y Sus Grandes Proezas en el Estado de California (sixth edition, in Spanish; Los Angeles: C. G. Vincent and Co., 1923), by Ireneo Paz
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Hanging the Sheriff: A Biography of Henry Plummer, by R. E. Mather and F. E. Boswell (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Life of Sile Doty, 1800-1876, a Forgotten Autobiography: The Most Noted Thief and Daring Burglar of His Time (originally published 1880; edition with a new foreword published Detroit: Alved of Detroit, 1948), by Sile Doty, ed. by J. G. W. Colburn, contrib. by Randolph Greenfield Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Last Raid of the Daltons: A Reliable Recital of the Battle With the Bandits at Coffeyville, Kansas, October 5, 1892 (originally published 1892; reprinted with an added foreword 1954), by David Stewart Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself: Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, His Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield Raid Ever Published (Chicago: The Henneberyy Co., 1903), by Cole Younger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1907), by Emerson Hough
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Thrilling Events, Life of Henry Starr: Famous Cherokee Indian Outlaw Narrates His Many Adventures From Boyhood to Date (1914), by Henry Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Belle Starr, The Bandit Queen: The Career of the Most Colorful Outlaw the Indian Territory Ever Knew (published under "William Yancey Shackleford" pseudonym; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1943), by Vance Randolph (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Out of the Black Patch: The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999), by Effie Marquess Carmack, ed. by Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Kentucky: A History of the State, Embracing a Concise Account of the Origin and Development of the Virginia Colony, Its Expansion Westward, and the Settlement of the Frontier Beyond the Alleghanies, the Erection of Kentucky as an Independent State, and its Subsequent Development (seventh edition; Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Co., 1887), by William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky; With an Outline Sketch of the Blue Grass Region (Chicago: O.L. Baskin and Co., 1882), ed. by William Henry Perrin, contrib. by Robert Peter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Wilford-Williford Family Treks into America (2 parts in 1 volume; with reprinted accounts of Christian and Trigg counties in KY; c1959), by Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel, contrib. by William Henry Perrin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Johnson County, Kentucky: A History of the County, and Genealogy of its People Up to the Year 1927 (Louisville, KY: Standard Press, 1928), by Mitchel Hall
  • Volume 1: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 2 (Genealogies): page images at lds.org

• Memorial History of Louisville From its First Settlement to the Year 1896 (2 volumes; Chicago and New York: American Biographical Pub. Co., ca. 1896), ed. by J. Stoddard Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Wilford-Williford Family Treks into America (2 parts in 1 volume; with reprinted accounts of Christian and Trigg counties in KY; c1959), by Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel, contrib. by William Henry Perrin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky, by John Gregg Fee (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green (Maysville, KY: Republican Printing Office, 1888), by Elisha Winfield Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert Co., 1885), by Elijah P. Marrs (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green (Maysville, KY: Republican Printing Office, 1888), by Elisha Winfield Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert Co., 1885), by Elijah P. Marrs (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert Co., 1885), by Elijah P. Marrs (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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