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True crime stories

Here are entered works on nonfiction crime narratives, written in a novelistic style for a popular audience, frequently focusing on biography, criminal psychology, police investigations, and trial procedures.

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• The Dean murder mystery (Privately Printed for Relatives, 1920), by Bert Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• A serpent's feast, pen pictures of actual life in New York Tenderloin (Manuscript co., 1901), by Sidney Allen Dequesne (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)

• Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Christopher P. Wilson (PDF at Ohio State)

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

• Teorii͡a prozy (880-04 Moskva ; Leningrad : "Krug", 1925., 1925), by Viktor Shklovskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elegant extracts : a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining passages, from the most eminent prose writers. (Wells and Lilly, 1826), by Vicesimus Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of novels (Printed for G. Kearsly ..., 1777), by Mrs. Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
• On prose and verse (The Bowling Green press, 1928), by James Stephens and Bowling Green Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prose selections with critical introductions by various writers and a general introduction (Macmillan, 1898), by George R. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose : selections with critical introductions by various writers and general introductions to each period (Macmillan, 1916), by Henry Craik (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chty pami︠a︡tʹ ott︠s︡i︠a︡ tvoho : povistʹ dli︠a︡ li︠u︡dyĭ (880-03 Lʹviv : Komitetu vydavnyt︠s︡tva knyz︠h︡ochok li︠u︡dovyk︠h︡, 1898., 1898), by Stanyslav Tokarskyĭ (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Prose of Romanticism (2017), ed. by Yoon Sun Lee (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• La prose; études sur les chefs-d'oeuvres des prosateurs de tous et de tous les pays. (Hachette, 1869), by Paul Albert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teorii͡a prozy (880-04 Moskva ; Leningrad : "Krug", 1925., 1925), by Viktor Shklovskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Über neue Prosa (E. Reiss, 1919), by Max Krell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La prose : lecons faites a la Sorbonne pour l'enseignement secondaire des jeunes filles (Hachette, 1869), by Paul Albert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expressed critical theory of European prose fiction before 1740 : exclusive of problems of characterization, setting and style (1912), by Arthur Jerrold Tieje (page images at HathiTrust)
• La prose; études sur les chefs-d'œuvre des prosateurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays (Hachette et cie., 1887), by Paul Albert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jacket2 (successor to Jacket, 2011-) (full serial archives)
• Jacket (literary magazine, 1997-2010) (full serial archives)

• L'art de la prose. (A. Fayard, 1908), by Gustave Lanson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts (Seattle: University of Washington Press, c2023), ed. by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Cong Zhang, and Ping Yao (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt (2001), by Marilyn Booth (HTML at UC Press)
• Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women's Biography in Chinese History (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Joan Judge and Hu Ying (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)
• Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), by Susan Clair Imbarrato (PDF at Tennessee)
• Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Françoise Lionnet (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Lytton Strachey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1943), by Max Beerbohm (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ancient Lives of Vergil, with an Essay on the Poems of Vergil in Connection with His Life and Times (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1879), by Henry Nettleship (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tallemant des Réaux; or, The art of miniature biography (The Clarendon press, 1925), by Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biography as history: men and movements in Europe since 1500. (Macmillan, 1963), by Charles F. Mullett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies of a biographer (Duckworth and co., 1898), by Leslie Stephen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jacques Amyot, traducteur des Vies parallèles de Plutarque. (H. Champion, 1908), by René Sturel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of biography; the Leslie Stephen lecture delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge, on 13 May 1911 (The University Press, 1911), by Sidney Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Last lectures by Wilfrid Ward; being the Lowell lectures, 1914, and three lectures delivered at the Royal institution, 1915 (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, Mrs. Wilfrid Ward, and Lowell institute lectures (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new biography (District of Columbia library association, 1929), by George Franklin Bowerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• English biography (J.M. Dent & Sons;, 1916), by Waldo Hilary Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biography: the literature of personality (The Century co., 1927), by James Chapman Johnston and Gamaliel Bradford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of biography (Charles Scribner's sons, 1920), by William Roscoe Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• One mighty torrent; the drama of biography (Stackpole Sons, 1937), by Edgar Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• One mighty torrent: the drama of biography. (Macmillan, 1955), by Edgar Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• English biography before 1700 (Harvard University Press, 1930), by Donald A. Stauffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American biography, 1800-1935 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1935), by Edward Hayes O'Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• English biography in the eighteenth century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1931), by John Mark Longaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of English biography (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1928), by Harold Nicolson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roman autobiography, particularly Augustine's confessions. ([New York] : The De Vinne press, 1901., 1901), by Andrew Fleming West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zarozhdenie nat︠s︡ionalʹnoĭ literatury v Si︠e︡vernoĭ Rusi; izsli︠e︡dovanie. (880-03 Odessa, V Tip. P. Frant︠s︡ova, 1870-, 1870), by I. S. Nekrasov and Yudin Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die griechisch-römische Biographie nach ihrer litterarischen Form (B.G. Teubner, 1901), by Friedrich Leo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aspects de la biographie. (Au Sans pareil, 1928), by André Maurois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historic personality (Macmillan and co., 1893), by Francis Seymour Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great biographers (Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1936), by Albert Britt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of English biography (L. & Virginia Woolf, 1927), by Harold George Nicolson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The doctor looks at biography; psychological studies of life and letters (George H. Doran company, 1925), by Joseph Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epochs of Greek and Roman biography (University of California Press, 1928), by Duane Reed Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires historiques et littéraires. (A. Lemerre, 1893), by J. Barbey d'Aurevilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address delivered on the 19th September, 1834, in the chapel of the College of Charleston, before the Euphradian Society (Printed by Jas. S. Burges, 1834), by Charles Fraser and College of Charleston. Euphradian Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Människokunskap; en studie över den historiska och den konstnärliga kunskapen (A. Bonnier, 1920), by John Landquist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die biographische Form der griechischen Heiligenlegenden. (München, 1909), by Hans Mertel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die biographische Form der griechischen Heiligenlegenden. (University of California Bindery, 1990), by Hans Mertel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Estudios críticos sobre biografía, historia, literatura y arte. (V. Suárez, 1879), by Fermín Herrán (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quaestiones biographicae. (C. Georg, 1889), by Erich Lippelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of biography : chapters on the strange and wonderful in human life (J. Clarke, 1876), by Edwin Paxton Hood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qing dai ren wu lun (Yuan yi shu she, 1916), by Shujie Fei (page images at HathiTrust)
• Materialien zu lebensläufen. Ein hand- und hülfsbuch für alle diejenigen, welche lebensläufe abzufassen haben (A. Schröter, 1858), by Carl August Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The perspective of biography (The University press], 1918), by Sidney Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The biographical fashion in literary criticism (University of California Press, 1943), by Harold F. Cherniss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aspects de la biographie (Au Sans Pariel, 1928), by André Maurois (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of American biography, 1800-1935. (A. S. Barnes, 1961), by Edward Hayes O'Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of American biography (The Southworth Press, 1932), by Dana Kinsman Merrill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biography (Oxford University Press, 1927), by Alan Chester Valentine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biography and biographies; hints and indications. (Priv. print. for the friends of the Torch Press, 1948), by J. Christian Bay and Torch Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• The doctor looks at biography : Psychological studies of life and letters, by Joseph Collins (Gutenberg ebook)

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