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Killer Shorts eBook Series

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  • Castle of Lies

    A Compact History of H. H. Holmes

    by JP Wilder ...
    Series Book 5 - Killer Shorts
    Step inside the legend of Chicago’s “Murder Castle” with Castle of Lies: A Compact History of H. H. Holmes. The popular story promises trapdoors, gas chambers and two hundred World’s Fair victims.The record tells something colder: an insurance swindler and con man who killed his partner, Benjamin Pitezel, then three of Pitezel’s children, and lied about all of it.JP Wilder follows Detective Frank ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • H. H. Holmes

    The True History of the White City Devil

    by Adam Selzer ...
    Shares with readers America’s first and most infamous serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World’s Fair in ChicagoThe first comprehensive book following the life and career of H. H. HolmesA fascinating true story about a dark moment in Chicago’s historyH. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil uncovers not only the true story of Holmes but also how the legend ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Mystery of Mysteries

    The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

    An Agatha, Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Ohioana Award nominee!A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes.It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Depraved

    The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of the Chicago World's Fair. "Destined to be a true crime classic" (Flint Journal, MI), this authoritative account chronicles the methods and madness of a monster who slipped easily into a bright, affluent ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Yellow Wallpaper (Mobi Classics)

    The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World She Edited

    Katharine S. White at The New Yorker

    by Amy Reading ...
    Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award"Meticulously researched." —The New York Times"A first-rate biography." —Washington PostA lively and intimate biography of an influential woman, the trailblazing and era-defining New Yorker editor Katharine S. White, who helped build the magazine’s prestigious legacy and transform the 20th century literary landscape ... Read more

    Was $12.49 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Vintage Magazines Identifier and Price Guide

    A guide to collecting vintage and antiquarian magazines showing major contributors as well as less well-known ones as well as the history and representative prices for most collectable magazines. Guides the reader/researcher through the history of the publications and the contributors that add to a magazine's worth. Originally published as: "Antique Traders Vintage Magazine price Guide". ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

    The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

    "Epic indeed, this is the definitive biography of Fitzgerald, plain and simple. There's no reason to own another." — Library JournalThe Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." These works and more elevated F. Scott Fitzgerald to his place as one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century. After struggling to become a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House of Harper

    The Making of a Modern Publisher

    by Eugene Exman ...
    An updated edition of this definitive history of Harper—a fascinating look into the history of American letters from the unique perspective of one of the country's most distinguished and enduring publishers—now with a new introduction that brings the book up to the present day. From Moby Dick to Huckleberry Finn—but not Alice in Wonderland, which was rejected— The House of Harper is a sweeping ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lazier Murder

    Prince Edward County, 1884

    In December 1883, Peter Lazier was shot in the heart during a bungled robbery at a Prince Edward County farmhouse. Three local men, pleading innocence from start to finish, were arrested and charged with his murder. Two of them — Joseph Thomset and David Lowder — were sentenced to death by a jury of local citizens the following May. Nevertheless, appalled community members believed at least one of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Life in Letters

    A vibrant self-portrait of an artist whose work was his life.In this new collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, we see through his own words the artistic and emotional maturation of one of America's most enduring and elegant authors. A Life in Letters is the most comprehensive volume of Fitzgerald's letters -- many of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Perfect Hour

    The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love

    F. Scott Fitzgerald was a handsome, ambitious sophomore at Princeton when he fell in love for the first time. Ginevra King, though only sixteen, was beautiful, socially poised, and blessed with the confidence that considerable wealth can bring.Their romance began instantly, flourished in heartfelt letters, and quickly ran its course–but Scott never forgot it. Now, for the first time, scholar and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD