Books similar like Shadow Men: The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America

A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

“A master of narrative nonfiction … in this mesmerizing tale about a Jazz Age gentlemanly thief, Jobb has found his own perfect jewel.” – David Grann, New York Times #1 bestselling author of The Wager…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the first widely renowned crime boss in America. Discover the true story from the bestselling author of The C…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map

When Arthur Wo…

Buy this book on Amazon

The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why It Failed

From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before hi…

Buy this book on Amazon

Our Evenings

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience, as he strug…

Buy this book on Amazon

Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases

A riveting true-crime history of London's first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases.

The idea of "Scotland Yard" is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London street…

Buy this book on Amazon

Shanghai

In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest setting pre-World War II Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder is just a cost…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, andcrime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the chilling true story of a young woman whose scandalous life was rumored to be Nathaniel Hawthorne’s inspiration for The…

Buy this book on Amazon

A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all―a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortu…

Buy this book on Amazon

Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

A whip-smart combo of self-help and political manifesto that is perfect for anyone who wants to save our democracy but doesn’t know where to start.

In today’s political climate, it’s hard not to get di…

Buy this book on Amazon

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival research and in-depth reporting.

On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

A groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that investigates Munchausen by Proxy from the host and creator of the award-winning true crime podcast Nobody Should Believe Me.

No bond is more sacred th…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today’s culture wars.

In December 1935, Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s sports, d…

Buy this book on Amazon

When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose groundbreaking coverage of the story was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Timed for a trial that will capture…

Buy this book on Amazon

Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire

The first unauthorized look at the inner workings―and ultimate breakdown―of the Disney Channel machine

For many kids growing up in the 2000s, there was no cultural touchstone more powerful than Disney …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

Buy this book on Amazon

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a compl…

Buy this book on Amazon

Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain

NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION.

In early modern England, murder truly was most foul. Trials were gossipy events packed to the rafters with noisome spectators. Executions were public proce…

Buy this book on Amazon

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, a re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players When Pamela Churchill Harriman die…

Buy this book on Amazon

Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the modern age of America

On January 21, 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather changed the course of…

Buy this book on Amazon

Shadow Men: The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America

Similar books (20)