【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞Two short mysteriesー"The Murder on the Lotus Pond" and "Murder on New Year's Eve"ーfeaturing seventh-century Chinese detective Judge Dee.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Judge DeeーConfucian Imperial magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger, based on a famous statesmanーwas Dutch diplomat and Chinese cultural historian Robert van Gulik's (1910?67) lasting invention. A welcome addition to the elite canon of fictional detectives, the Judge steps in to investigate homicide, theft, and treason and restores order to the golden age of the Tang Dynasty. In ＜em＞Murder in Ancient China＜/em＞'s first story, we watch as Judge Dee attempts to solve the mystery of an elderly poet murdered by moonlight in his garden pavilion; in the second, set on the eve of the Chinese New Year, the Judge makes two rare mistakesーwill peril result?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Praise for the Judge Dee Mystery series＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞&...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞A sleuthing librarian and her friends embark on a fun-filled trip to a holiday campーbut death isn't taking a holiday . . .＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜em＞June 1998＜/em＞: Elodie Marshall has committed a terrible crime. But when she's deemed unfit to plead, she is sentenced toliving within the confines of a mental health facility . . .＜br /＞ ＜em＞Present day＜/em＞: Amateur detective Pru Pearce and her friends from the Winterbottom Women's Institute are about to embark on their annual getaway. The 1960s Butlins-style Harmony Hollows Resort has caught their attention for a few reasons, including the northern ballroom championships and the unsolved double murder from 1983.＜br /＞ But what the women thought was just a cold case soon steps into the present when a murderer, dubbed The Grim Sleeper, strikes. Soon, Pru and the other WI women are dragged deeper into the mysteries of both the past and present-day murders. B...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞A murder in a quiet village is causing anxiety for a psychologistーwho must face her fears to find the killer . . .＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Psychologist Laurel Nightingale has fled from her problems in search of peace and respite. However, after discovering a dead body shortly after arriving in the tight-knit community of Elderwick, she wonders if village life is as wholesome as she first thought.＜br /＞ Local police are convinced the death was accidental, but Laurel suspects murder and enlists her new friend Maggie to join her quest to uncover the truth. When a second body is found, Laurel ruffles feathers by pointing the finger at one of the locals. But when her accusation backfires, she's left alienated and afraid.＜br /＞ With her fear at an all-time high, her sleuthing partner gone missing, and village gossip spreading like wildfire, Laurel wonders who she can truly trust. Is it time to move on yet again? And wil...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞?Bestselling Author: An FBI agent is plunged into a decades-old murderーand her own painful pastーin her Louisiana hometown . . .＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Her hometown of Loomis, Louisiana, holds no charm for Jodie Gilmore. Why be reminded of her mother's abandonment? But the novice FBI agent has been assigned to a missing persons case, and refusal isn't an option. Her coworkers are counting on her. Surely the tight-lipped locals will talk to one of their own. Or will they?＜br /＞ A decades-old double homicide is discovered, and Harrison Cahill, the handsome forensic anthropologist on the case, thinks Jodie knows more than she's saying. But speaking freely can be deadly in Loomis . . .＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞An ex-NYPD investigator finds a body she recognizes under the George Washington Bridge in this "vividly told" crime thriller "studded with wry wit" ( ＜em＞Publishers Weekly＜/em＞).＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Kat Stone knows she's living on borrowed time, waiting for her violent past to catch up with her. Still, she doesn't expect men to start falling from the sky. On a desolate morning in Fort Washington Park, Kat discovers the body of her apartment building's maintenance man.＜br /＞ The NYPD is quick to dismiss his death as suicide, another lost soul leaping from the bridge overhead. But Kat is less than convinced, especially when she learns about his dangerous side hustle.＜br /＞ Forced to go undercover with a deep-sea fishing company, she's determined to crack the case. But will she find the killer before her past drags her under?＜br /＞ This riveting novel of suspense features "a motley ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞New York Times＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞Bestseller: The "compelling" story of Frances Schreuder, who persuaded her son to kill her multimillionaire father, Franklin Bradshaw ( ＜em＞The Washington Post Book World＜/em＞).＜/strong＞＜br /＞ In August of 1983 Shana Alexander, acclaimed journalist and chronicler of the lives and criminal trials of Jean Harris and Patty Hearst, wrote to New York City ballet patron Frances Schreuder on the eve of her murder trial. Schreuder stood accused of unlawfully causing the death of her father, Franklin Bradshaw, and of soliciting, encouraging, and aiding her prep school?student son in the homicide in the hope of financial gain. Alexander never received a response, but she flew to Salt Lake City and met with Schreuder's mother, the matriarch of the Mormon dynastyーeighty-year-old Berenice Bradshaw.＜br /＞＜em＞Nutcracker＜/em＞ is the true story of this crime...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞Edgar Award Finalist: A true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞It was not a clever killing. On May 5, 1973, three men escaped from a Maryland prison and disappeared. Joined by a fifteen-year-old brother, they surfaced in Georgia, where they were spotted joyriding in a stolen car. Within a week, the four young men were arrested on suspicion of committing one of the most horrific murders in American history.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jerry Alday and his family were eating Sunday dinner when death burst through the door oftheir cozy little trailer. Their six bodies are only the beginning of Thomas H. Cook's retelling of this gruesome story; the horrors continued in the courtroom. Based on court documents, police records, and interviews with the surviving family members, this is a chilling look at the evil that can lurk just around the corner.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞The true story of Ira Einhorn, the Philadelphia antiwar crusader, environmental activist, and New Age guru with a murderous dark side.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ During the cultural shockwaves of the 1960s and '70s, Ira Einhornーnicknamed the "Unicorn"ーwas the leading radical voicefor the antiwar movement at the University of Pennsylvania. At his side were such noted activists as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. A brilliantly articulate advocate for peace in a turbulent era, he rallied followers toward the growing antiestablishment causes of free love, drugs, and radical ecological reform.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1979, when the mummified remains of his girlfriend, Holly Maddux, a Bryn Mawr flower child from Tyler, Texas, were found in a trunk in his apartment, Einhorn claimed a CIA frame-up. Incredibly, the network of influential friends, socialites, and powerful politicians he'd charmed and manipulated over the years suppo...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞She's the only one her imprisoned husband will confess toーbut what he has to say may destroy herーin this chilling new novel by the author of ＜em＞A True Crime＜/em＞ . . .＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Edward O'Connor has been in prison for twenty-seven years. Now he's ready to admit to the crimes the police have always suspected him of. But there's a catch: Edward will only speak to his estranged wife, Maggie.＜br /＞ Since her husband's incarceration, Maggie has tried to live a quiet existence. But with the media relentlessly tracking her down, she's had to repeatedly pack up her life and move with her two sons.＜br /＞ The detectives are desperate for Maggie's help. Only she can unlock Edward's secrets. But during her visits, he wants to discuss their marriage, their holidays, and their sons, leaving Maggie with questions about the past.＜br /＞ As the pressbegins hounding her family once again and the string of confess...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Following the success of their prize-winning account of the infamous killing of PC George Clark - The Dagenham Murder - Linda Rhodes and Kathryn Abnett now reconstruct, in vivid detail, another sensational Victorian murder case. Inspector Thomas Simmons was shot and fatally wounded near Romford in January 1885, and the search for his killers culminated in a second police murder, this time in far-off Cumbria. In tracing the course of the crime - and the country-wide manhunt, court cases and executions that followed - the characters and methods of Simmons and his fellow officers are revealed, as are the desperate criminal careers of the killers. This meticulously researched, graphic and highly readable case study gives a rich insight into the dark side of late Victorian England.Linda Rhodes and Kathryn Abnett are the authors of two previous true crime books. The Dagenham Murder, written in collaboration with Lee Shelden, won...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞A re-examination of the infamous 2001 North Carolina "Staircase murder" through the outrageous theory that an owl was the killerーand not Michael Peterson.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ On December 9, 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her Durham, North Carolina, home. Her scalp was laced with deep incisions, and her blood was strewn from outside to inside the house.＜br /＞ The sinister truth of that night turned her murder into North Carolina's most enigmatic criminal case, capturing media attention across the globe.＜br /＞ Police zeroed in on Kathleen's husband, Michael Peterson, and charged him with murder. But was it the truth?＜br /＞ A neighbor, Larry Pollard, came up with an alternative "killer." He claimed an owl attacked Kathleen outside her house. He said it sliced her scalp with its fierce talons and caused her to run inside, collapsing at the stairwell, an...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞The bestselling author's "auspicious debut in the true-crime genre . . . [a] sensitive and searching story of the murders of at least six nursing home patients" ( ＜em＞Publishers Weekly＜/em＞).＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Outside the dining hall of the Alpine Manor nursing home, there is a sign that reads, "This is Grand Rapids, Michigan," a reminder for those who can no longer trust their own minds. For months, Cathy Wood has fed these residents, bathed them, and even moistened their eyes with artificial tears. To her, they live in a state worse than deathーand she has decided to relieve them of their pain. Wood and her lover, Gwen Graham, make a pact to kill those whom they were hired to care for. No one notices when an elderly person dies a quiet death, but as these two slip deeper into their plan, the terrible secret becomes unbearable.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lowell Cauffiel's account of the Alpine Manor murd...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞From Hollywood's Black Dahlia to the Arkansas Bluebeard: an anthology of true crime profiles by "the grand dame of mystery" (Ed Gorman).＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Whether venturing into a blood-spattered farm in Texas, down a lonely mountain road in Alabama, or into the deceptively sunny Ohio suburbs, acclaimed mystery writer Craig Rice lends her hard-boiled style and a wicked irony to this gallery of real-life murders. Among them . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞A saintly middle-aged widow bludgeoned to death in her New Jersey home; the headless torsos of two women found floating in the Lake of the Ozarks; a New Year's fire in Pennsylvania set to cover the traces of a more ghastly crime; a traveling evangelist on a divine mission blown to bits in Berkley; an aspiring starlet tortured, bisected, and dumped in a vacant LA lot; and a New York couple poisoned to death by the mysterious "Veiled Murderess," a convicte...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞There is no such thing as the perfect crime. Yet within these pages are thirteen twentieth-century murders whose perpetrators have - so far - escaped justice. Some may still be alive, cold cases awaiting new forensic leads but others have taken their chilling secrets to the grave.Read about the strange theatrical vagrant found brutally murdered in a brick works. Also about the unfortunate girl strangled to death in a derelict building at Christmas; a taxi driver killed by his passenger on a lonely road; a police officers girl friend who was sexually assaulted and murdered on moorland; the dreadful killing of a servant girl; two men shot dead on a quiet highway; the discovery of mysterious and suspicious skeletal remains; and, not least, the callous murderers who allowed innocent men to be stand trial. Famous modern cases are also explored, based on new research. The Barbara Mayo murder is still in the memory of many Derbys...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞Winner of the Edgar Award: The gripping account of a gruesome mass murder in gritty 1980s New York and the relentless hunt for a coldblooded killer.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞On a warm spring evening in 1982, thirty-seven-year-old accountant Margaret Barbera left work in New York City and walked to the West Side parking lot where she kept her BMW. Finding the lock on the driver's side door jammed, she went to the passenger's side and inserted her key. A man leaned through the open window of a van parked in the next spot, pressed a silenced pistol to the back of Margaret's head, and fired. She was dead before she hit the pavement.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It was a professional hit, meticulously plannedーbut the killer didn't expect three employees of the nearby CBS television studios to stumble onto the scene of the crime. "You didn't see nothin', did you?" he demanded, beforeshooting the first eyewitness in the head. Afte...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞From the Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist comes what ＜em＞Publishers Weekly＜/em＞ called the "definitive study" of the grisly mass killings in Matamoros, Mexico.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the 1980's, Adolfo Constanzo, devotee of Santer?a and powerful cult leader openedshop in Mexico City as a fortune-teller. He soon realized that there were greater profits in drug money than the occult, and as his status grew in the drug trade, so too did his legendary brutality. Kidnappings, torture, and murder were three weapons in his arsenal that he used to keep a vice grip on the drug trade.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Buried Secrets＜/em＞, Edward Humes explores the intersections of the drug trade and politics in a way that still resonates today, touching upon the religious elements that play into the iconic status of drug kingpins. This unflinching, unforgettable story is brought to vivid, terrifying life in "one ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞The author of ＜em＞Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer＜/em＞ examines a different series of grisly unsolved murders in Victorian-era London.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Dismembered corpses are discovered scattered along the banks of the river Thames, a calculating clinical multiple murderer is on the loose, and the London police have no inkling of the killer's identity ? and, more than a century later, they still don't. In this, M.J. Trow's latest reinvestigation of a bizarre and brutal serial killing, he delves deep into the appalling facts of the case, into the futile police investigations, and into the dark history of late Victorian London.＜br /＞ The incredible criminal career of the Thames torso murderer has gripped readers and historians ever since he committed his crimes in the 1870s and 1880s. The case poses as many questions as the even more notorious killings of Jack the Ripper. How, over a period of fifteen ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜strong＞A riveting history of true crimes in the area over the centuries, with photos and illustrations.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ From Islington to Finsbury Park to Hackney Wick, the North London area has been the setting of countless crimes from the notorious to the obscure. In this book, Geoffrey Howse delves into the files covering hundreds of years of the area's darkest past. Events covered include long forgotten cases that made the headlines in their day as well as others more famous:＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞the seventeenth-century murder of a magistrate for which three innocentmen were hanged＜/li＞ ＜li＞Britain's first railway murder＜/li＞ ＜li＞the first criminal to be caught via wireless telegraphy＜/li＞ ＜li＞the anarchists who left a trail of murder and mayhem following a raid on a Tottenham factory＜/li＞ ＜li＞and many more that will fascinate those with an interest in the local and social history of London＜/li＞ ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Much has been written about the soldiers executed during WW1 for military offenses, all of whom were conditionally pardoned in 2006. However, until now very little attention has been paid to the cases of men who were tried under the Army Act and executed for murder. The British Army has always been reticent about publicizing courts martial and eighty years elapsed before the government was compelled to prematurely declassify the written proceedings of First World War capital courts martial. Even then, public attention tended to concentrate on cases involving soldiers who had been shot at dawn for offenses other than homicide, and virtually nobody was inclined to seek a posthumous pardon or judicial review for the murderous Tommies. This meant neither the victims nor the convicted mens families were able to discover details about the murder cases. Though readily identifiable onlinevia much-visited war cemetery websites, unt...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞The history of the old county of Yorkshire has been concerned with the great and the good, the ambitious and the downright unscrupulous. Its broad acres has had more than its fair share of highprofile murders, especially though not exclusively in its burgeoning urban centres. Now there is a reference work to bring together most of the principal murders, from the mid-eighteenth century when Dick Turpin went to the York gallows, through to the end of hanging in 1964.In a time-span of two centuries, Yorkshire has witnessed a range of tragic narratives including husbands killing their wives, homicidal attacks in the night alleys and courts, gangs at work looking for vulnerable victims on dark streets and country lanes.Many of these tales are from the countryside too. Revenge and jealousy on and around farms, clashes between poachers and gamekeepers and shootings in rolling hills and valleys.Other factors in the social scene ar...