homicide

Looks at how bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to represent Levi Weeks, who was accused of murdering Gulielma "Elma" Sands, and how their work influenced murder trials in the United States.

Discusses the criminal life of Tommy "Karate" Pitera, covering his role as an assassin for the New York Mafia in the 1980s and the efforts of investigator Jim Hunt, who tracked him down with a variety of methods, including the use of informants.

An account of early nineteenth-century serial killers William Burke and William Hare, who were accused of killing sixteen people in Edinburgh, Scotland in order to sell their corpses to doctors as subjects for dissection.

L, an enigmatic Los Angeles sleuth, teams up with FBI agent Naomi Misura to investigate a series of murders in which the killer is obviously leaving clues designed engage L in a battle of wits.

Presents a young reader's version of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" about a Scottish nobleman and his wife who resort to murder and treachery in their pursuit for power and then are haunted by the corpses of their victims.

A science-fiction graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy of brutal ambition, in which Macbeth, a dragon-riding nobleman in a future world, kills his king with the help of his power-hungry wife and finds himself battling rivals and vengeance seekers for his life and the throne.

Profiles mass murderers such as, Richard Speck, Charles Whitman, and others while examining what possibly led them to commit the crimes.

Trapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side, a young black man finds release only in acts of violence.

An African-american youth in a small town in Kansas finds himself the only witness to a murder.

Quadriplegic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme's relationship with his protegee and lover Amelia Sachs is put to the ultimate test when they travel to North Carolina where Rhyme is scheduled for experimental surgery and are drawn into a local case of kidnapping, rape, and murder that pits the two detectives against one another.