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Across True Crime and Biography & Autobiography — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as The Valachi Papers by Peter Maas.

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Serpico — Peter Maas

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid — Pat F. Garrett

The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Prison Days Book 6, True Diary Entries by a Maximum Security Prison Officer — Simon King

Prison Days Book 6, True Diary Entries by a Maximum Security Prison Officer — Simon King

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Go Down Together The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde — Jeff Guinn

Go Down Together The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

The End Of The Dream The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up Ann Rules Crime Files — Ann Rule

The End Of The Dream The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up Ann Rules Crime Files

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

White Mischief — James Fox

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

If Loving You is Wrong The Teacher and Student Sex Case that Shocked the World — Gregg Olsen

If Loving You is Wrong The Teacher and Student Sex Case that Shocked the World

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Strangers on a Bridge The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers — James Donovan

Strangers on a Bridge The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

The Secret Barrister Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken — The Secret Barrister

The Secret Barrister Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken

The Secret Barrister

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Killer Clown The John Wayne Gacy Murders — Terry Sullivan

Killer Clown The John Wayne Gacy Murders

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

The Survivor How I Made It Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter — Josef Lewkowicz

The Survivor How I Made It Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter

Josef Lewkowicz

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Jersey Tough My Wild Ride from Outlaw Biker to Undercover Cop — Wayne Bradshaw

Jersey Tough My Wild Ride from Outlaw Biker to Undercover Cop

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

A Rip in Heaven A Memoir of Murder and Its Aftermath — Jeanine Cummins

A Rip in Heaven A Memoir of Murder and Its Aftermath

Jeanine Cummins

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Roosevelt’s Secret War FDR and World War II Espionage — Joseph E. Persico

Roosevelt’s Secret War FDR and World War II Espionage

Joseph E. Persico

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Texas Pistoleers The True Story of Ben Thompson and King Fisher — G R Williamson

Texas Pistoleers The True Story of Ben Thompson and King Fisher — G R Williamson

G. R. Williamson

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Future Crimes Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It — Marc Goodman

Future Crimes Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Wicked Springfield, Missouri The Seamy Side of the Queen City — Larry Wood

Wicked Springfield, Missouri The Seamy Side of the Queen City

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Monkey House Blues A Shanghai Prison Memoir — Dominic Stevenson

Monkey House Blues A Shanghai Prison Memoir

Dominic Stevenson

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York — Timothy J. Gilfoyle

A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York

Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

From the Moment They Met It Was Murder Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir — Alain Silver

From the Moment They Met It Was Murder Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

The Devil at His Elbow Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty — Valerie Bauerlein

The Devil at His Elbow Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

Valerie Bauerlein

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Perfect Victim The True Story of “The Girl in the Box” by the D.A. That Prosecuted Her Captor — Christine McGuire

Perfect Victim The True Story of “The Girl in the Box” by the D.A. That Prosecuted Her Captor

Christine McGuire

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Through the Glass — Shannon Moroney

Through the Glass

Shannon Moroney

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Tears of Rage — John Walsh

Themes: True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Fans of The Valachi Papers by Peter Maas will find 24 titles here, all united by True Crime, Biography & Autobiography. Authors represented include Peter Maas, Pat F. Garrett, SIMON. KING, Jeff Guinn, and others.

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