And when one of the men in power — a married lawyer named Alexander Parker Crittenden — was brazenly killed by his lover, the ...

Howard Frank's new book "Chameleon" is about Michael Parrish, who murdered his girlfriend and their young son in the Poconos ...

Author Betsy Longenbaugh draws upon both her research and her imagination to give more flesh and blood to the lives of ...

In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.

In 1955 Ruth Ellis was the last woman hanged in Britain for the murder of her lover. In this investigative three-part series film-maker Gillian Pachter re-examines the case.

Thirty years ago, Adam McKible, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina, stretched across a blanket outdoors to read The Letters of Davy Carr, a serialized novel published anonymously ...