1928. When a dead body is dumped in her luxury ocean liner cabin, Lucy Revelstoke, the young widow of a British lord, must discover the killer before authorities start digging into her own checkered past.
Many decades before Ted Bundy roamed the country there was serial killer Earle Nelson. During the 1920s, this geographically mobile killer went from city to city. His modus operandi involved getting into a house by pretending to be a person looking for a room to rent or inspecting a house that was for sale, and then strangling the landlady, often followed by having sex with the dead body. Robbery was frequently a secondary motive.
Set in 1969, in both NB & ON, CAN., D.I. Phil Steele, his diverse team, & godmum P.J. must solve whodunit at rural retreat.
An aspiring tycoon partners with a racketeer to build a jukebox that makes millions, then takes the fall for the largest money laundering scheme in history.
The House of Mystery Radio Show interviewed several of the key players involved in the case: Ken Kratz, the prosecutor of both Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey,
Over the last century, there have been plenty of trials called “The Trial of the Century,” but of all mentioned, the O.J. Simpson case rose well above the rest.
1971.Quaint mountain village in NB is deeply distressed by multiple murders. P.J., her godson & his diverse team must solve!
During the seven years between 2010 and 2017, McArthur preyed on men from Toronto's gay community and managed to avoid any detection.
Stephen Port, a serial murderer in London, U.K., was convicted of drugging, raping, and murdering four young men. He was also convicted of drugging and raping several other men.
The primary suspects listed by the FBI, media, or public opinion, supported by the show’s best interviews with authors and researchers who have covered these suspects
The sixteen short stories in Crime Wave 2: Women of a Certain Age range from light-hearted to heart-breaking, and from romantic to treacherous.
In Crime Wave 2, "The Air Affair," a short story of sleuths of a certain age, set in the Mysterious Devices steampunk world.
In a formerly-grand haunted hotel a woman must rely on her infamous hitman father’s lessons in survival after a body is found.
It focuses on the serial killer of at least 27 young men and boys in Germany in the post-World War 1 era. At the center of this murder case were Fritz Haarmann and Hans Grans,
"The Crime of the Century" in 1920s United States. At the center of this murder case were Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb
Undercover at a Carnevale costume shop in Venice, Maddie tackles eccentric inventors, industrial spies, & ill-starred lovers.
Foiling a kidnap plot leads Maddie to an undercover gig in a Gilded Age NYC mansion, up against her most ruthless enemy yet.
🏆 Winner – BEST CRIME NOVELLA – Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence 2022
A charming coming of age story wrapped around a murder, a betrayal and a national crisis.
Eleven-year-old Johnny tries to make sense of a murder, an absent father, and the FLQ Crisis through heart and humour-filled letters to hockey legend Dave Keon.
England, 1873. Clara Blackstone has just been released after one year in a private asylum for the insane. Clara has two goals: to reunite with her husband, Henry, and to never—ever—return to the asylum. As she enters Durham, Clara finds her carriage surrounded by a mob gathered to witness the imprisonment of Mary Ann Cotton—England’s first female serial killer—accused of poisoning nearly twenty people, including her husbands and children.
Conspiracy theories represent secret knowledge: real or not, and there is something very pleasing about having supposed insider knowledge. Because of their entertainment value, you can find conspiracy theories everywhere. Implausibility doesn’t make conspiracy theories less entertaining
Kurt Cobain, the 1960s mega-icon Marilyn Monroe, TV’s Hogan's Heroes lead actor Bob Crane, the talented and multi-award-winning actress Natalie Wood, and the people's princess, Princess Diana.
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