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With a foreword written and narrated by bestselling crime author Peter James, The Crime Book explores over 100 crimes and examines the science, psychology and sociology of criminal behaviour. Hear the gory details of each crime and how they were solved, with renowned quotes and detailed criminal profiles letting you delve into the criminal mind. The Crime Book looks at the big ideas and concepts in criminology spanning from pirates, kidnapping and political plots to modern con artists, serial killers and rogue traders, including the Black Dahlia investigation, the Mississippi Scheme, and the notorious Jeffrey Dahmer.The Crime Book audiobook is the perfect introduction to law enforcement and criminology across history''s most infamous crimes, narrated by multi award-winning reader, Jonathan Keeble, who has recorded over five hundred audiobooks.© 2017 Dorling Kindersley Ltd © 2019 DK Audio

Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Jonathan Keeble. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Peter Wortsman. ''It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered''Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the Romantics of the early nineteenth century to works of contemporary fiction, it includes Hoffmann''s hallucinatory portrait of terror and insanity ''The Sandman''; Chamisso''s influential black masterpiece ''Peter Schlemiel'', where a man barters his own shadow; Kafka''s chilling, disturbing satire ''In the Penal Colony''; the Dadaist surrealism of Kurt Schwitters'' ''The Onion''; and Bachmann''s modern fairy tale ''The Secrets of the Princess of Kagran''. Macabre, dreamlike and expressing deep unconscious fears, these stories are also spiked with unsettling humour, showing stylistic daring as well as giving insight into the darkest recesses of the human condition.Peter Wortsman''s powerful translations are accompanied by brief overviews of the lives of each author, and an introduction discussing the notion of ''angst'' and the stories'' place in the context of German history.Translated, selected and edited with an introduction by Peter Wortsman© Peter Wortsman 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2021