Titres dans Historique

Eric Frattini, escritor y periodista especialista en servicios secretos y el Vaticano y Andrés Madrigal cocinero con dos estrellas Michelín nos ofrecen las recetas de las últimas cenas y comidas tomadas por 50 grandes personajes de la historia. Además el libro recrea las últimas horas de estos 50 personajes y que circunstancias les rodearon para que aquellos sabrosos platos fueran su última cena.

It was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi KC is finally able to share all the astonishing details. Shortlisted for the 2023 Danger Awards Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan were both happy, healthy, affluent, middle-class women from conservative...

Clarence Darrow is the most celebrated criminal trial lawyer in American history. In the spring of 1911, organized labor implored Darrow to represent the McNamara brothers, two union iron workers charged with the murder of 20 employees arising out of the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. Darrow and his wife Ruby's trip west quickly became a fight for survival.

Late-1970s Los Angeles was rampant with killers and shady characters, but all the go-getters at Space Matters saw was possibility. Richard Kasparov was handsome and charismatic; his younger associate, Jerry Schneiderman, brilliant and nerdy. When the pair hired a veteran contractor to oversee construction, the space planning firm they operated out of a hip mansion in LA's Miracle Mile district appeared poised to transform the boundless skyline into their jackpot. After the promising team imploded, however, the orderly lines on their blueprints succumbed to treachery and secrets.

Roman history, from the very foundation of the city, is replete with people and stories that shock our modern sensibilities. Evil Roman Emperors puts the worst of Rome's rulers in one place and offers a review of their lives and a historical context for what made them into what they became.

Usando una nueva tecnología, documentos descubiertos recientemente y sofisticadas técnicas de investigación, un equipo internacional -dirigido por un obsesionado agente retirado del FBI- finalmente ha resuelto el misterio que ha perseguid a generaciones desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial...

""The Officer’s Daughter is a masterpiece. More than that, it's the perfect book for our troubled time. Johnson has written the deepest, most emotionally resonant understanding of forgiveness and justice I have ever read.""—Darin Strauss, bestselling author of Half a Life The author reflects...

Actors, musicians, TV personalities, and other public figures in the spotlight aren’t always who they appear to be. You might be surprised by just how many have led nefarious, double lives, and have become infamous criminals! Power, status, and a rich lifestyle aren’t barriers to criminal behavior. Yes, people from all walks of life commit crimes. But the people featured here are not your typical neighbors or subway passengers—they are household names and Hollywood stars.

Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plot to save the casinos in Havana from Castro's revolution, Wolfe Rabin pulls the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, but his hubris leads to the conspiracy unraveling in a sensational trial. At a time when there was a jukebox in every restaurant, diner, bar, barracks, arcade, and canteen, Rabin's trajectory from inventor to promoter to outlaw is set against the Mob's growing infiltration of the jukebox industry.

In 1991, Ioan Culianu was on the precipice of a brilliant academic career. Culianu had fled his native Romania and established himself as a widely admired scholar at just forty-one years old. He was teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School where he was seen as the heir apparent to his mentor, Mircea Eliade, a fellow Romanian expatriate and the founding father of the field of religious studies, who had died a few years earlier.

Styckmordet i Halmstad, och fyra andra mordfall är en samling som kastar ljus på några av de mest omskakande och gåtfulla mordfallen i Nordens historia. Samlingen består av fem olika mordfall, tidigare publicerade som enskilda titlar, och erbjuder en unik inblick i de polisutredningar som följde på dessa mörka brott.

Trippelmordet i Härnösand, och fem andra mordfall är en samling som kastar ljus på några av de mest omskakande och gåtfulla mordfallen i Nordens historia. Samlingen består av sex olika mordfall, tidigare publicerade som enskilda titlar, och erbjuder en unik inblick i de polisutredningar som följde på dessa mörka brott. En mörk skugga kastades över den annars så fridfulla sommaren i Härnösand 2010 när en pappa och hans två barn hittas brutalt mördade. Morden på Pernilla och Engla, som fångade den svenska nationens hjärtan våren 2008.

Dramat i Knutby, och fyra andra brottsfall är en samling som kastar ljus på några av de mest bisarra och omskakande brottsfallen i Sveriges historia. Samlingen består av fem olika brottsfall, tidigare publicerade som enskilda titlar, och erbjuder en unik inblick i de utredningar som följde på dessa brott. Knutbys pingstförsamling blev skådeplats för hisnande händelser som slutligen ledde till att församlingens pastor dömdes till livstids fängelse för mordet på sin andra hustru. En välorganiserad kriminell grupp lyckas med en stulen helikopter råna en värdedepå i Västberga.

In this meticulous and authoritative account of the trial and the times of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Robert Zorn clears away decades of ungrounded speculation surrounding the case. Inspired by his father's relationship with the actual accomplices—including the mastermind—he presents the clearest ever picture of a criminal partnership that would shake every class and culture of American society.

Back then, hot-headed gangsters, not-so-gentle dames and bullet-riddled corpses filled the newspaper headlines. And some of the stories below the headlines were even true. The 1920s was a period in American history when even the respectable were unwilling to stay sober. And not-so-fast cars carried assassins across Chicago, a city that for many captures the essence of the USA. In Tough Guys in the Room, the story of Al Capone and his rivals is told in separate and stand-alone topics that cover key figures and events.

Poliser ser mycket blod i sina dagar, men den lilla lägenhet i Helsingfors de kom in i denna oktobertorsdag var ändå bland det värsta de sett. Bland allt blod fann de en ung kvinna som blivit brutalt mördad. Polisen börjar genast utreda brottet. Offret hade bott ensam i lägenheten, men det ska visa sig att hennes före detta make bor på andra sidan gatan med sin nya fästmö. Genom förhör och intervjuer målas ett triangeldrama av sällan skådat slag upp, och det är svårt för polisen att avgöra vad sanningen är, när beskyllningar studsar åt alla håll.

Under 1980-talet var nynazismen på stark framväxt i Skandinavien. Flera uppmärksammade våldsdåd sker, och många av förövarna är unga män. År 1981 avrättades två unga män i norska Hadeland. Förövarna var tre unga nynazister. De tre unga männen, Espen och John som båda var 20 år gamla, samt Johnny som var 18 år, kom alla tre från konservativa hem, två av familjerna hade gamla kopplingar till nazismen. De hade också något annat gemensamt, alla tre var väldigt vapenintresserade.

The chilling true story of a brutal string of deaths on the post-Revolutionary frontier that reveal the violence at the heart of the young United States Kentucky, 1798: A harrowing series of murders begins. The first body, discovered by cattle drovers, lies bloody at the bottom of a ridge. Then...

Step into a world where ancient enigmas meet modern investigation. From the haunting depths of vanished civilizations to cold cases that still chill detectives today, Epic Historical Mysteries takes you on a thrilling journey through humanity’s most captivating unsolved puzzles.

Murder, mob rule, and the making of Abraham Lincoln—the story of three racially motivated murders in Mississippi River towns from 1835 to 1838 that inspired the speech that put Lincoln on the national map—the Lyceum Address.