Celebrated Crimes is a collection of true crime stories, narratives and essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history, compiled by Alexandre Dumas, père, with the assistance of several friends. He featured Beatrice Cenci, Martin Guerre, Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, as well as more recent events and criminals, including the cases of the alleged murderers Karl Ludwig Sand and Antoine François Desrues, who were executed.
Table of Contents:
The Borgias
The Cenci
Massacres of the South
Mary Stuart
Karl-Ludwig Sand
Urbain Grandier
Nisida
Derues
La Constantin
Joan of Naples
The Man in the Iron Mask (An Essay)
Martin Guerre
Ali Pacha
The Countess De Saint-Geran
Murat
The Marquise De Brinvilliers
Vaninka
The Marquise De Ganges
