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Why Communism Kills: The Legacy of Karl Marx (with a biography of the author; c2000), by Fred Schwarz (HTML at schwarzreport.org)
Famous Unsolved Murder Mysteries (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1937), by Marcet Haldeman-Julius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Murder at Smutty Nose, and Other Murders (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1926), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
Murder for Profit (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1926), by William Bolitho (page images at HathiTrust)
Murder and its Motives (London: W. Heinemann, 1924), by F. Tennyson Jesse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Why Communism Kills: The Legacy of Karl Marx (Long Beach, CA: Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, ca. 1981), by Fred Schwarz (page images at HathiTrust)
The Rebel Earl, and Other Studies (Edinburgh: W. Green and Son, 1926), by William Roughead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Reporting Killings as Human Rights Violations: How to Document and Respond to Potential Violations of the Right to Life Within the International System for the Protection of Human Rights, by Kate Thompson and Camille Giffard (PDF and other formats with commentary in the UK)
The marble faun, or, The romance of Monte Beni (Houghton, Mifflin, 1890), by Nathaniel Hawthorne and A.W. Elson & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Constance Trescot; a novel (The Century co., 1905), by S. Weir Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
Murder at Smutty Nose, and other murders (W. Heinemann limited, 1927), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
Murder out yonder; an informal study of certain classic crimes in back-country America (The Macmillan company, 1941), by Stewart H. Holbrook (page images at HathiTrust)
Les femmes homicides (F. Alcan, 1908), by Praskovʹi͡a Nikolaevna Tarnovskai͡a (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
La contagion du meurtre; étude d'anthropologie criminelle. (F. Alcan, 1896), by Paul Aubry (page images at HathiTrust)
Reprisal (Little, Brown and Company, 1942), by Ethel Vance (page images at HathiTrust)
Murder and liberty (For sale by H. Lieber, 1881), by Karl Heinzen and Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
Duke Casanova : a novel (Exposition Press, 1958), by Ken Lipscomb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Great crimes of the West (Printed by Ed. Barry co., 1929), by Peter Fanning (page images at HathiTrust)
De rebus capitalibus Atheniensuim, quae (tōn phonikōn) nomine comprehenduntur (Wendell, 1863), by Eduard Bohstedt (page images at HathiTrust)
Lyrics and landscapes (The Century Co., 1908), by Harrison S. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
Bidrag till mordets psykologi; kriminalpsykologiska studier (P.A. Norstedt & söner, 1925), by Andreas Bjerre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Du dépeçage criminel (Storck, 1902), by Augustin de Saint-Vincent de Parois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Why some men kill; or, Murder mysteries revealed ([Portland, Or.], 1919), by George A. Thacher (page images at HathiTrust)
The mind of the murderer. (Philosophical Library, 1957), by Walter Lindesay Neustatter (page images at HathiTrust)
Del Asesinato, considerado como una de las bellas artes (Barcelona : F. Granada, 1907., 1907), by Thomas De Quincey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
An argument for construing largely the right of an appellee of murder, to insist on trial by battle : and also for abolishing appeals: with an appendix, containing a report of a debate in the House of Commons, on abolishing appeal of murder in the British North American colonies, etc. etc. (Printed by B.R. Howlett, for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy and Clarke and Sons, 1818), by Edward Augustus Kendall and Ashford V. Thornton (page images at HathiTrust)
Confessions, trials, and biographical sketches of the most cold blooded murderers, who have been executed in this country from its first settlement down to the present time ... (S. Andrus and Son, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)
God's revenge against murder, or, The drown'd wife : a tragedy, lately performed, with unbounded applause, (of the devil and his court) by Ned Findley, esquire, one of the grand company of tragedians in the service of the Black Prince ... (Printed for the author, by J. Adams, 1808), by M. L. Weems (page images at HathiTrust)
Murder will out. The first step in crime leads to the gallows. The horrors of the Queen city ... (Cincinnati, 1867), by William L. De Beck (page images at HathiTrust)
Trial of Abraham Thornton (W. Hodge & Co., 1926), by Abraham Thornton, John Hall, and Great Britain. Assizes (Warwick) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Murder for profit. (Doubleday, 1961), by William Bolitho (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Trial of Samuel Herbert Dougal (W. Hodge & Co., 1928), by Samuel Herbert Dougal, F. Tennyson Jesse, and Great Britain. Assizes (Essex) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The detection of murder (Greenberg, 1953), by William F. Kessler and Paul B. Weston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Lex dei, Studien zur (Herder, 1905), by Franz Triebs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The ring and the book. (Smith, Elder, 1872), by Robert Browning (page images at HathiTrust)
Corleone, a tale of Sicily (Macmillan and co., 1896), by F. Marion Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
East India (Judicial). Correspondence relating to the Sitapur murder case. (H. M. Stationery Off., by Darling and son, ltd., 1913), by Great Britain India Office, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India). Judicial Dept, and India. Governor-General (1910-1915 : Hardinge) (page images at HathiTrust)
The triumphs of Gods revenge against the crying and execrable sin of wilful and premeditated murther with his miraculous discoveries, and severe punishments thereof, in thirty several tragical histories; digested into six books, committed in divers countries beyond the seas. Never published or imprinted in any other language ... With a table of all the several letters and challenges contained in the whole six books. (Printed for C. Griffin, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster., 1704), by John Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
Warning piece against the crime of murder, or, An account of many extraordinary and most providential discoveries of secret murders ... (Printed for William Owen, and R. Goadby, 1790) (page images at HathiTrust)
Comment on nous vole, comment on nous tue. (Librairie contemporaine, 1922), by Eugène Villiod (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tom Sawyer (Harper & Bros., 1903), by Mark Twain and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Studien zur lex Dei. (Herder, 1905), by Franz Triebs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Pennsylvania Bar Association (Printed by the Association, 1911), by Robert Ralston and Pennsylvania Bar Association (page images at HathiTrust)
Droit romain:- L'homicide & le parricide. Droit francais:- Théorie des circonstances atténuantes. (1885), by Léon Siben (page images at HathiTrust)
Über lustmord und lustmörder. (Heidelberg, 1905), by Georg Ilberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die theorie von der mordbefugnis der obrigkeit im XVI. jahrhundert. (E. Ebering, 1906), by Walter Platzhoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die begriffe von mord und totschlag, sowie vorsätzlicher körperverletzung mit tödlichem ausgange in der gesetzgebung seit der mitte des 18ten jahrhunderts. (Marburg, 1890), by Friedrich Wachenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
La contagion du meurtre; étude d'anthropologie criminelle. (Paris, 1887), by Paul Aubry (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Verbrechen des Mordes und die Todesstrafe; criminalpolitische und psychologische Untersuchungen. (C. Habel, 1875), by Franz von Holtzendorff (page images at HathiTrust)
The importance of a religious education illustrated and enforced : a sermon, delivered at Worcester, October 31, 1793, occasioned by the execution of Samuel Frost, on that day, for the murder of Captain Elisha Allen, of Princeton, on the 16th day of July, 1793 (by Isaiah Thomas. Sold at the Worcester bookstore, 1793), by Aaron Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
Nouvelles réflexions sur la monomanie homicide, le suicide, et la liberté morale. (Baillière, 1830), by Elias Regnault (page images at HathiTrust)
İzah ül-cinayet fi ahkam il-kısas ve ed-diyat (Uhuvet Matbaası, 1910), by Umar Azmi Samsuni (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The mysterious murder of Maria Marten at Polstead, in Suffolk : reprinted from the ed. of 1828. (G. Bles, 1928), by James Curtis and Great Britain. Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery (page images at HathiTrust)
Thomas J. Mooney. Hearings ... Seventy-fifth Congress, second session, on S.J. Res. 127 ... December 15, 1937. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1938), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
Mass murder (H. Holt and company, 1929), by Louis Charles Douthwaite (page images at HathiTrust)
Murder for profit ... (N.Y., Garden City publishing company, inc., 1928), by William Bolitho (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Zur Psychologie des Mordes, kriminalpsychologische Studien (In Kommission bei C. Winter, 1925), by Andreas Bjerre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Murder considered as one of the fine arts ; Three memorable murders ; The Spanish nun (Putnam, 1890), by Thomas De Quincey and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Fairburn's account of the inhuman murder of Mr. and Mrs. Williamson and their woman servant, at the King's arms, New Gravel Lane, Ratcliff-highway, on Thursday night, December 19, 1811; including the whole investigation before the coroner's inquest, &c. &c. With a plate descriptive of the manner in which John Turner the lodger escaped out of the two pair of stairs window, after he had seen one of the murderers plundering the dead bodies. (J. Fairburn, 1811), by John Fairburn (page images at HathiTrust)
Ten real murder mysteries (G. P. Putnam's, 1929), by Sidney Sutherland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The return of Russell Colvin ... (Bennington Historical Museum & Art Gallery, 1945), by John Spargo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Burning sands (Grosset & Dunlap, 1921), by Arthur E. P. Brome Weigall, George Melford, and Grosset & Dunlap (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)
Eugene Aram : a tale (Philadelpia : Lippincott, 1875., 1875), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)
Famous assassinations of history, from the time of Julius Caesar down to the present day. (Frank Tousey, 1882), by Frank Tousey (page images at HathiTrust)
Der tyrannenmord nach der lehre der katholischen kirche. (G. Birk & Co., 1905), by R. Böhme (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
O zabójstwie : ze stanowiska teoryi i prawodawstw obowiązujących (S. Orgelbrand, 1871), by Stanisław Boduszyński (page images at HathiTrust)
Dumfries tragedy, &c (Printed for Peter Brown, 1843) (page images at HathiTrust)
The triumphs of Gods revenge against the crying and execrable sinne of (wilful and premeditated) murther : with his miraculous discoveries, and severe punishment thereof : in thirty several tragical histories, (digested into six books) committed in divers countreys beyond the seas : never published or imprinted in any other language ... (Printed by A.M. for William Lee, and are to be sold by George Sawbridg, Francis Tyton, John Martin ... [and 9 others], 1670), by John Reynolds (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)
The four witnesses (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1947), by Mary Reisner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Cheating, swindling and murder (The Arnold Co., 1925), by Jesse Lee Bennett, Thomas De Quincey, Douglas Jerrold, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)
A murder in Paradise. (New York, NY : Rinehart, [1954], 1954), by Richard Gehman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Crime and punishment (W. Heinemann, 1914), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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)
The last speech, confession and execution of John Smith alias Ashburnh am [sic] a notorious highway-man who was hang'd at Stampford-Hill, where he is to be hung up in chains: and Edward Jackson, who was drawn, and hang'd, at Tyburn, for high-treason, on Monday the 26th. of this instant May, 1684: (London : printed by E. Mallet in Blackhorse Alley near Fleet Bridge, 1684), by John Smith and Edward Jackson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
The araignment of hypocrisie: or, a looking-glasse for murderers and adulterers; and all others that profes religion, and make show of holiness, yet deny the power and practice thereof in their lives and conversations. Being a fearfull example of Gods judgements on Mr. Barker, minister of Gods word at Pytchley two miles from Ketterin in Northhamptonshire; who for living in adultery with his neer kinswoman, and concealing the murder of her infant; was with his kinswoman and maid-servant executed at Northampton. With the strange manner of the discovery of that horrid murder; and their several speeches immediately before their deaths. (Printed at London : by John Crowch and T.W., 1652), by J. C. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
A looking-glasse, for murtherers and blasphemers: wherein they [see] Gods iudgement showne vpon a keeper neere Enfield C[hase] desperately shot at a man that intended to haue stolne deere, ... was done on Monday night, the xii. day of Iune, being the same day [the] tempest was in London. The the tune of Iasper Cunningha[m.] (London : printed [by M. Flesher] for I. T[rundle, 1626]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
A hellish murder committed by a French midwife on the body of her husband, Jan. 27, 1687/8 for which she was arraigned at the Old-Baily, Feb. 22, 1687/8, and pleaded guilty and the day following received sentence to be burnt. (London : Printed for R. Sare ... and published by Randal Taylor ..., 1688), by Marie Hobry (HTML at EEBO TCP)
The confession of Joseph Baker, a Canadian by birth, who, for murder & piracy committed on the high seas, on board the schooner Eliza, Captain Wm. Wheland, in a voyage from Philadelphia bound to St. Thomas, was tried on the 25th of April, 1800, before the Hon. Samuel Chase and Richard Peters, judges of the District Court of the United States, for the District of Pennsylvania, and now under sentence of death, in the solitary cells of the penitentiary house of the city and county of Philadelphia. ([Philadelphia] : Printed by Richard Folwell, no. 63, North Front-Street. (Copy-right secured according to law.), [1800]), by Joseph Baker (HTML at Evans TCP)
Circuit Court of the United States, Middle Circuit of the New-Jersey district. The United States, (a.) William Brigstock, other-wise called John Johnston. Indictment for murder. ... ([United States : s.n., 1800]), by William Brigstock, John Evans, Johannes Williams, and United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit) (HTML at Evans TCP)
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. A sermon preached to some miserable pirates July 10. 1726. On the Lord's Day, before their execution. / By Benjamin Colman, Pastor of a church in Boston. ; To which is added some account of said pirates. ; [Three lines from Deuteronomy] (Boston, N.E. : Printed for John Phillips and Thomas Hancock, and sold at their shops., 1726), by Benjamin Colman (HTML at Evans TCP)
The Last words and dying confession of the three pirates, who were executed this day, (May 9th, 1800.) ([Philadelphia] : From Folwell's press, no. 63, North Front-Street, Philadelphia. (Copy-right secured according to law.), [1800]), by Joseph Brous, Joseph Baker, and Peter Peterson (HTML at Evans TCP)
A sermon, delivered at Litchfield, on the 2d day of November, A.D. 1768. On the day of the execution of John Jacobs, an Indian native, pursuant to sentence of death passed upon him by the Hon. Superior Court, for the murder of James Chockrer. : Preached upon the desire of the criminal and published at the request of some of the hearers. / By Timothy Pitkin, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Farmington. ; [One line of Scripture text] (Hartford: : Printed by Green & Watson, near the great bridge., [1768]), by Timothy Pitkin (HTML at Evans TCP)
Considerations on the injustice and impolicy of punishing murder by death. Extracted from the American museum. With additions. / By Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania. (Philadelphia: : From the press of Mathew Carey., May 4--M.DCC.XCII. [1792]), by Benjamin Rush (HTML at Evans TCP)
A narrative of the life and conversion of Alexander White, aet. 23. Who was executed at Cambridge, November 18, 1784, for the murder of a Captain White, at sea. : Containing extracts from his manuscripts, and some letters written by him a short time before his execution. ([Boston] : Printed and published by Powars and Willis, in Boston., [1784?]), by Alexander White, ed. by Chandler Robbins (HTML at Evans TCP)
A narrative of the horrid murder & piracy committed on board the schooner Eliza, of Philadelphia, on the high seas, by three foreigners, who were tried before the Circuit Court of the United States, on Monday, the 21st of April, 1800; together with an account of the surprizing recapture of the said schooner, by Captain Wheland, the only person who escaped from their barbarity. ([Philadelphia] : From Folwell's press, no. 63, North Front-Street. (Copy-right secured according to law.), [1800]), by Captain Wheland (HTML at Evans TCP)

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