The Crime Book
Learn about the world’s most notorious cons, heists, and murders in The Crime Book.

Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Crime in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and true crime experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Crime Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. 

This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Crime, with:

- More than 100 ground-breaking accounts of true crime
- Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts
- A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout
- Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding

The Crime Book
is a captivating introduction to the world’s most notorious criminal cases, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Here you’ll discover more than 100 sinister accounts of true crime through exciting text and bold graphics.

Your Crime Questions, Simply Explained

This fresh new guide explores the most twisted accounts of crime and criminology in history. If you thought it was difficult to learn about the most prolific wrongdoings and the criminals behind them, The Crime Book presents key information in an easy to follow layout. From outlaws like pirates, bandits, and highwaymen, to serial killers and the cyber criminals of the 21st century, discover the worst felonies through superb mind maps and step-by-step summaries.

The Big Ideas Series


With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Crime Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.
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The Crime Book
Learn about the world’s most notorious cons, heists, and murders in The Crime Book.

Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Crime in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and true crime experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Crime Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. 

This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Crime, with:

- More than 100 ground-breaking accounts of true crime
- Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts
- A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout
- Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding

The Crime Book
is a captivating introduction to the world’s most notorious criminal cases, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Here you’ll discover more than 100 sinister accounts of true crime through exciting text and bold graphics.

Your Crime Questions, Simply Explained

This fresh new guide explores the most twisted accounts of crime and criminology in history. If you thought it was difficult to learn about the most prolific wrongdoings and the criminals behind them, The Crime Book presents key information in an easy to follow layout. From outlaws like pirates, bandits, and highwaymen, to serial killers and the cyber criminals of the 21st century, discover the worst felonies through superb mind maps and step-by-step summaries.

The Big Ideas Series


With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Crime Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.
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Overview

Learn about the world’s most notorious cons, heists, and murders in The Crime Book.

Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Crime in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and true crime experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Crime Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. 

This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Crime, with:

- More than 100 ground-breaking accounts of true crime
- Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts
- A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout
- Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding

The Crime Book
is a captivating introduction to the world’s most notorious criminal cases, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Here you’ll discover more than 100 sinister accounts of true crime through exciting text and bold graphics.

Your Crime Questions, Simply Explained

This fresh new guide explores the most twisted accounts of crime and criminology in history. If you thought it was difficult to learn about the most prolific wrongdoings and the criminals behind them, The Crime Book presents key information in an easy to follow layout. From outlaws like pirates, bandits, and highwaymen, to serial killers and the cyber criminals of the 21st century, discover the worst felonies through superb mind maps and step-by-step summaries.

The Big Ideas Series


With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Crime Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780744028508
Publisher: DK
Publication date: 02/02/2021
Series: DK Big Ideas
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 998,820
Product dimensions: 7.60(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Foreword writer and consultant Cathy Scott is a Los Angeles Times best-selling author, and an established crime writer and investigative journalist for The New York Times and Reuters. Best known for writing The Killing of Tupac Shakur and The Murder of Biggie Smalls, she has written extensively about street gangs and organized crime, including mob daughter Susan Berman in Murder of a Mafia Daughter, and drug kingpin "Freeway" Rick Ross.

Table of Contents

Introduction 10

Bandits, Robbers, and Arsonists

Father of all treasons 18

Thomas Blood

A civil, obliging robber 19

John Nevison

Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters 20

Edward "Blackbeard" Teach

Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the boy that buys the beef 22

Burke and Hare

They were brave fellows. They were true men 24

The James-Younger Gang

It's for the love of a man that I'm gonna have to die 26

Bonnie and Clyde

You'll never believe it-they've stolen the train 30

The Great Train Robbery

Addicted to the thrill 36

Bill Mason

To me it is only so much scrap gold 37

The Theft of the World Cup

Miss, you'd better look at that note 38

D.B. Cooper

Without weapons, nor hatred, nor violence 44

The Société Générale Bank Heist

I stole from the wealthy so I could live their lifestyle 45

John MacLean

Sing of my deeds, tell of my combats… forgive my failings 46

Phoolan Devi

The fire becomes a mistress, a lover 48

John Leonard Orr

It was the perfect crime 54

The Antwerp Diamond Heist

He was an expert in alarm systems 56

The Theft of the Cellini Salt Cellar

Weird and unbelievable, but it's a very real criminal case 57

The Russia-Estonia Vodka Pipeline

Old-school London criminal gents 58

The Hatton Garden Heist

Con Artists

Under the influence of bad counsels… I fell a martyr 64

The Affair of the Diamond Necklace

People took their hats off to such a sum 66

The Crawford Inheritance

The smoothest con man that ever lived 68

The Sale of the Eiffel Tower

Domela's story rings with the high lunacy of great farce 70

Harry Domela

If my work hangs in a museum long enough, it becomes real 74

Elmyr de Hory

It's not stealing because I'm only taking what they give me 78

Doris Payne

They inflated the raft and left the island. After that nobody seems to know what happened 80

Escape from Alcatraz

At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues 86

Frank Abagnale

I was on a train of lies. I couldn't Jump off 88

Clifford Irving

Originally I copied Hitler's life out of books, but later I began to feel I was Hitler 90

Konrad Kujau

If this is not a ring-in I'm not here 94

The Fine Cotton Scandal

White Collar Crimes

Money… has often been a cause of the delusion of multitudes 100

The Mississippi Scheme

Nothing is lost save honor 101

The Black Friday Gold Scandal

The old game of robbing Peter to pay Paul 102

Charles Ponzi

You can't convict a million dollars 108

The Teapot Dome Scandal

Citizens were dying right, left, and center 110

The Bhopal Disaster

The world's biggest mugging 114

The City of London Bonds Theft

It's all just one big lie 116

Bernie Madoff

I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal 122

The Enron Scandal

He put in peril the existence of the bank 124

Jérôme Kerviel

Bribery was tolerated and… rewarded 126

The Siemens Scandal

Not just nerdy kids up to mischief in their parents' basement 128

The Spyeye Malware Data Theft

The irregularities… go against everything Volkswagen stands for 130

The Volkswagen Emissions Scandal

Organized Crime

The most hazardous of all trades, that of the smuggler 136

The Hawkhurst Gang

In Sicily there is a sect of thieves 138

The Sicilian Mafia

They dare do anything 146

The Triads

No more villainous, ruffianly band was ever organized 150

The Wild Bunch

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble 152

The Beer Wars

If the boss says a passing crow is white, you must agree 154

The Yakuza

When we do right, nobody remembers. When we do wrong, nobody forgets 160

Hells Angels

They were the best years of our lives 164

The Krays and the Richardsons

All empires are created of blood and fire 166

The Medellín Cartel

It was always about business, never about gangs 168

"Freeway" Rick Ross

Kidnapping and Extortion

He valued her less than old swords 176

The Abduction of Pocahontas

Marvelous real-life romance 177

The Tichborne Claimant

Anne, they've stolen our baby! 178

The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping

Since Monday I have fallen into the hands of kidnappers 186

The Kidnapping of John Paul Getty III

I'm a coward. I didn't want to die 188

The Kidnapping of Patty Hearst

I still sleep with a night light. I can't ride a subway 190

The Chowchilla Kidnapping

I always felt like a poor chicken in a henhouse 196

The Kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch

Murder Cases

An unusually clear case, like a "smoking gun" 202

The Neanderthal Murder

Perpetrated with the sword of justice 203

Jean Calas

Not guilty by reason of insanity 204

Daniel M'Naghten

Gave Katherine warning to leave 206

The Dripping Killer

Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks 208

Lizzie Borden

Fingerprinting alone has proved to be both infallible and feasible 212

The Stratton Brothers

Thank God it's over. The suspense has been too great 216

Dr. Crippen

I was driven by a will that had taken the place of my own 217

Madame Caillaux

She was very good looking with beautiful dark hair 218

The Black Dahlia Murder

The artist was so well informed on chemicals… it was frightening 224

Sadamichi Hirasawa

I have been a victim of many unusual and irrational thoughts 226

The Texas Tower Massacre

Now is the time for Helter Skelter 230

The Manson Family

A dingo's got my baby! 238

The Death of Azaria Chamberlain

I was Mr. Nobody until I killed the biggest somebody on Earth 240

The Murder of John Lennon

Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing? 241

The Murder of Roberto Calvi

I was on death row, and I was innocent 242

Kirk Bloodsworth

An act of unparalleled evil 244

The Murder of James Bulger

I'm afraid this man will kill me some day 246

O. J. Simpson

Foul play while in the Spy Craft store 252

Craig Jacobsen

People are afraid and don't want to talk to us 254

The Murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls

Serial Killers

Murdering people… for sheer sport 262

Liu Pengli

The said Dame Alice had a certain demon 263

Alice Kyteler

The blood of maidens will keep her young 264

Elizabeth Báthory

I will send you another bit of innards 266

Jack the Ripper

They'd rather be dead than be with me 274

Harvey Glatman

I just like to kill 276

Ted Bundy

Calculated, cruel, cold-blooded murders 284

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

More terrible than words can express 286

Fred and Rosemary West

This is the Zodiac speaking 288

The Zodiac Killer

In his own eyes, he was some sort of medical god 290

Harold Shipman

A mistake of nature 292

Andrei Chikatilo

I was sick or evil, or both 293

Jeffrey Dahmer

A danger to young women 294

Colin Pitchfork

Read your ad. Let's talk about the possibilities 298

John Edward Robinson

Assassinations and Political Plots

Insatiable and disgraceful lust for money 304

The Assassination of Pertinax

Murdering someone by craft 305

The Hashashin

Sic semper tyrannis! 306

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Dreyfus is innocent. I swear it! I stake my life on it-my honor! 310

The Dreyfus Affair

If they shed my blood, their hands will remain soiled 312

The Assassination of Rasputin

There has to be more to it 316

The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

I kiss you for the last time 322

The Abduction of Aldo Moro

Barbarity was all around us 324

The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt

Barbaric and ruthless 326

The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko

Directory 332

Index 344

Quote Attributions 351

Acknowledgments 352

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