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• Poisoners -- England
• Poisoners -- France
• Poisoners -- Great Britain

• The Poison Fiend! Life, Crimes, and Conviction of Lydia Sherman (the Modern Lucretia Borgia), Recently Tried in New Haven, Conn., for Poisoning Three Husbands and Eight of Her Children: Her Life in Full! Exciting Account of Her Trial; The Fearful Evidence; The Most Startling and Sensational Series of Crimes Ever Committed in This Country; Her Conviction (Philadelphia: Barclay and Co. 1873), by George L. Barclay (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)

• Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV (London: Duckworth and Co., 1901), by Frantz Funck-Brentano, trans. by George Maidment (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso, Briefly Summarised by His Daughter (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Gina Lombroso, contrib. by Cesare Lombroso (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The History of the Prison Psychoses (1912), by Paul H. Nitsche and Karl Wilmanns, trans. by Francis Barnes and Bernard Glueck (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Imprisonment (New York: Brentano's, c1924), by Bernard Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminal Sociology, by Enrico Ferri (Gutenberg text)
• Retributive Justice (1882), by Francis Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Right Way to Do Wrong: An Exposé of Successful Criminals (Boston: H. Houdini, 1906), by Harry Houdini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays (newly enlarged and complete edition; London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1921), by Edward Carpenter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

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

• We Who Are About to Die: Prison As Seen by a Condemned Man (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1935), by David Lamson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oliver Twist: A Serio-Comic Burletta, in Four Acts (French's Standard Drama #228; New York: S. French, ca. 1864), by George Almar, contrib. by Charles Dickens
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Israel Rank; The Autobiography of a Criminal (London: Chatto and Windus, 1907), by Roy Horniman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rogues and Vagabonds (new edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1892), by George R. Sims (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Something Doing (published as by "Varick Vanardy"; New York: The Macaulay Co., c1919), by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, illust. by George W. Gage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Amateur Cracksman, by E. W. Hornung (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (in German; Berlin: Ullstein, c1920), by Norbert Jacques (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Groote Park Murder (Toronto: T. Allen, c1923), by Freeman Wills Crofts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• McAllister and His Double (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1905), by Arthur Train, illust. by F. C. Yohn and Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens (HTML at Bibliomania)
• R. Holmes and Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth, by John Kendrick Bangs (Gutenberg text)
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe (multiple editions)
• The Day of Days: An Extravaganza, by Louis Joseph Vance, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Christmas Holiday (c1939), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827 (Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart; Baltimore: Carey, Hart and Co., 1834), by Eugène François Vidocq (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Memoirs of Vidocq, the Head Chief of the French Police: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vidocq, the French Police Spy (New York: G. Routledge and Sons, n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Newgate Calendar, ed. by Donal O'Danachair (HTML at Ex-Classics)
• Lives and Exploits of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Robbers, and Murderers, of All Nations: Drawn From the Most Authentic Sources and Brought Down to the Present Time (Hartford: E. Strong, 1836), by Charles Whitehead (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts (1690s-1770s) (partial serial archives)
• The Story of Crime: From the Cradle to the Grave (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1908), by Hargrave Lee Adam
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Crime's Nemesis (New York: Macmillan, 1936), by Luke S. May (page images at HathiTrust)
• Identificación Científica de los Reos (in Spanish; Mexico City: Imp. del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, 1892), by Ignacio Fernández Ortigosa
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some graphical elements missing
• Sistema Dactiloscópico de Oloriz y Retrato Hablado de Bertillón: Explicación Detallada de Ambos Sistemas de Identificación (in Spanish; Madrid: Viuda de A. Alvarez, ca. 1914), by José Jiménez Jerez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Man Hunters (New York: J. H. Sears and Co., c1926), by Melville Davisson Post, illust. by William D. I. Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Young Bank Messenger, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tom Thatcher's Fortune (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1888), by Horatio Alger (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Life of Bob and Cole Younger With Quantrell: Daring and Startling Episodes in the Lives of These Notorious Bandits (Chicago: Regan Pub. Corp., ca. 1916), by Clarence E. Ray (page images at HathiTrust)

• Official Detective Stories (partial serial archives)
• True Detective (partial serial archives)

• The Prevention of Repeated Crime (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; Chicago: Callaghan and Co., 1943), by John Barker Waite (PDF with commentary at Michigan)
• Beating Back (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1914), by Al Jennings and Will Irwin, illust. by Charles M. Russell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Departmental Committee on Habitual Offenders, Vagrants, Beggars, Inebriates, and Juvenile Delinquents, With Appendix and Index (does not include separate Report volume; Edinburgh: Printed for HMSO by Neill and Co., 1895), by Great Britain Departmental Committee on Habitual Offenders, Vagrants, Beggars, Inebriates, and Juvenile Deliquents, contrib. by Charles Cameron (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Earp Brothers of Tombstone: The Story of Mrs. Virgil Earp (New York: C. N. Potter, c1960), by Frank Waters (page images at HathiTrust)

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