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45 Murderers

A Collection of True Crime Stories

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45 Murderers

By: Craig Rice
Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin
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From Hollywood’s Black Dahlia to the Arkansas Bluebeard: an anthology of true-crime profiles by “the grand dame of mystery” (Ed Gorman)

Whether venturing into a blood-spattered farm in Texas, down a lonely mountain road in Alabama, or into the deceptively sunny Ohio suburbs, acclaimed mystery writer Craig Rice lends her hard-boiled style and a wicked irony to this gallery of real-life murders. Among them...

A saintly middle-aged widow bludgeoned to death in her New Jersey home; the headless torsos of two women found floating in the Lake of the Ozarks; a New Year’s fire in Pennsylvania set to cover the traces of a more ghastly crime; a traveling evangelist on a divine mission blown to bits in Berkley; an aspiring starlet tortured, bisected, and dumped in a vacant LA lot; and a New York couple poisoned to death by the mysterious “Veiled Murderess”, a convicted killer who never revealed her motives - or her true identity.

Culled from Rice’s work as a crime reporter, “the stories in 45 Murderers have withstood time” as a century-spanning, cross-country tour of the sinister underbelly of the American Dream (Jeffrey Marks, author of Who Was That Lady?).

©1952 Craig Rice (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing Crime Murder Social Sciences True Crime Violence in Society Alabama
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Definitely worth listening to if you’re interested in learning about the worse crimes known to man. You might want to find more about some of these as there have been numerous books about a good few of them.

Various murders

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These two voices are hard to get past I struggled to persevere but the crimes they talk about are short and detailed I enjoyed those. And not known on our general crusade through true crime.

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I really enjoyed the Craig Rice books,the Malone ones in particular. Johnny Heller is a superb narrator,absolutely perfect for the genre. This book is sad ,as it's not fiction. However, it's really well written and narrated. Very interesting to hear about a very famous local case that drew the attention of Raymond Chandler too. I will add more Craig Rice books to my library (if narrated by Johnny Heller)The style is like Damon Runyon meets Raymond Chandler.

Different

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The narrator’s voices were very annoying. I could not carry on listening. The stories seemed interesting so it’s a shame

Not great

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not the same old murder stories we've all heard 10 times already.
short 10-15 minute

new stories

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