morbid curiosity nonfiction

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.06 avg rating — 234,472 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner 4.26 avg rating — 26,525 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory 4.22 avg rating — 104,633 ratings
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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul 3.99 avg rating — 5,001 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,114 ratings
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Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales 4.22 avg rating — 14,004 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,855 ratings
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,409 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.89 avg rating — 55,253 ratings
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death 4.30 avg rating — 45,189 ratings
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found 3.75 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women 4.09 avg rating — 64,235 ratings
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster 3.90 avg rating — 29,489 ratings
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Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes 4.10 avg rating — 2,766 ratings
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The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
by: Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 109,011 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York 4.01 avg rating — 36,512 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating — 426,047 ratings
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All the Living and the Dead
All the Living and the Dead 4.25 avg rating — 11,727 ratings
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Necropolis: London and Its Dead
Necropolis: London and Its Dead 3.78 avg rating — 2,213 ratings
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine 4.31 avg rating — 21,437 ratings
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them 4.23 avg rating — 13,612 ratings
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime 3.41 avg rating — 4,258 ratings
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Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science
Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science 4.23 avg rating — 7,820 ratings
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,426 ratings
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death 4.13 avg rating — 46,333 ratings
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Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit 4.09 avg rating — 78,663 ratings
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Clean
Clean 3.71 avg rating — 2,484 ratings
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And I Alone Survived
And I Alone Survived 4.12 avg rating — 298 ratings
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So, You Want to Work with the Ancient and Recent Dead?: Unearthing Careers from Paleontology to Forensic Science
So, You Want to Work with the Ancient and Recent Dead?: Unearthing Careers from Paleontology to Forensic Science 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women 4.16 avg rating — 176,408 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 4.13 avg rating — 157,319 ratings
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The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece 3.53 avg rating — 1,420 ratings
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Morgue: A Life in Death
Morgue: A Life in Death 3.85 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
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The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy
The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy 4.18 avg rating — 14,094 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World 3.91 avg rating — 7,931 ratings
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Bodies We've Buried: Inside the National Forensic Academy, the World's Top CSI Training School
Bodies We've Buried: Inside the National Forensic Academy, the World's Top CSI Training School 3.95 avg rating — 708 ratings
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CSI Told You Lies
CSI Told You Lies 3.81 avg rating — 750 ratings
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Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can 4.04 avg rating — 61,421 ratings
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The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer 3.48 avg rating — 6,555 ratings
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist 4.05 avg rating — 6,576 ratings
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History 3.89 avg rating — 6,818 ratings
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine 4.01 avg rating — 8,184 ratings
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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul 3.99 avg rating — 5,001 ratings
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The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death 4.08 avg rating — 2,376 ratings
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Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist 4.32 avg rating — 46,090 ratings
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Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office
Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office 3.98 avg rating — 1,097 ratings
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The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science
The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science 3.20 avg rating — 862 ratings
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Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths
Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths 3.78 avg rating — 218 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 3.84 avg rating — 120,609 ratings
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Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science 3.75 avg rating — 5,027 ratings
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Captivity of the Oatman Girls
Captivity of the Oatman Girls 3.36 avg rating — 423 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors 4.14 avg rating — 80,877 ratings
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Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone 4.20 avg rating — 7,743 ratings
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Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City 3.61 avg rating — 4,107 ratings
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Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders 3.93 avg rating — 3,494 ratings
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The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic
The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic 4.45 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal 3.93 avg rating — 50,610 ratings
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Beating a Dead Horse Is More Fun Than You Think: A Partisan's View of the Southland
Beating a Dead Horse Is More Fun Than You Think: A Partisan's View of the Southland 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Morbidity And Mortality Weekly Report
Morbidity And Mortality Weekly Report 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Dead Do Talk
The Dead Do Talk 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The M & M Files: Morbidity & Mortality Rounds in Emergency Medicine
The M & M Files: Morbidity & Mortality Rounds in Emergency Medicine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner
The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner 3.78 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Petrol sniffing in Western Australia: An analysis of morbidity and mortality in 1981-86 and the prevalence of petrol sniffing in aboriginal children ... desert region in 1987
Petrol sniffing in Western Australia: An analysis of morbidity and mortality in 1981-86 and the prevalence of petrol sniffing in aboriginal children ... desert region in 1987 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Six Feet Under or Up in Smoke: The Aussie Way of Death
Six Feet Under or Up in Smoke: The Aussie Way of Death
by: Jim Eames
3.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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21st Century Complete Collection CDC MMWR - 1982-2009 - Centers for Disease Control Morbidity and Mortality Report, with Archives of Weekly Reports, Surveillance Summaries, More
21st Century Complete Collection CDC MMWR - 1982-2009 - Centers for Disease Control Morbidity and Mortality Report, with Archives of Weekly Reports, Surveillance Summaries, More 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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CRISIS CALL FOR NEW PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, A: EMERGING EFFECTS OF LIFESTYLE ON MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY
CRISIS CALL FOR NEW PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, A: EMERGING EFFECTS OF LIFESTYLE ON MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Lenin's Embalmers
Lenin's Embalmers 3.75 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Gordon's Guide to The Surgical Morbidity and Mortality Conference
Gordon's Guide to The Surgical Morbidity and Mortality Conference it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places 3.74 avg rating — 9,983 ratings
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Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror 4.07 avg rating — 1,145 ratings
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London's Dead: A Guided Tour of the capital's dead
London's Dead: A Guided Tour of the capital's dead 3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Mütter Museum: Historic Medical Photographs
Mütter Museum: Historic Medical Photographs 4.32 avg rating — 689 ratings
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In Her Lifetime: Female Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
In Her Lifetime: Female Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Unquiet Grave (Ballad, #12)
The Unquiet Grave (Ballad, #12) 3.76 avg rating — 3,065 ratings
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Forensic Detective: How I Cracked the World's Toughest Cases
Forensic Detective: How I Cracked the World's Toughest Cases 3.91 avg rating — 832 ratings
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Morbid Curiosities: Collections of the Uncommon and the Bizarre (Skulls, Mummified Body Parts, Taxidermy and more, remarkable, curious, macabre collections)
Morbid Curiosities: Collections of the Uncommon and the Bizarre (Skulls, Mummified Body Parts, Taxidermy and more, remarkable, curious, macabre collections) 4.23 avg rating — 464 ratings
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The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist
The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist 3.67 avg rating — 1,355 ratings
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They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper
They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper 3.69 avg rating — 1,360 ratings
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The Morbid Anatomy Anthology
The Morbid Anatomy Anthology 4.39 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Silent Witnesses
Silent Witnesses 3.83 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
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Black Box: The Final Investigations
Black Box: The Final Investigations 3.94 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders
Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders 3.70 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Morbid Magic: Death Spirituality and Culture from Around the World
Morbid Magic: Death Spirituality and Culture from Around the World 4.06 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Mortal Evidence: The Forensics Behind Nine Shocking Cases
Mortal Evidence: The Forensics Behind Nine Shocking Cases 3.95 avg rating — 352 ratings
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A Plague upon Humanity: The Hidden History of Japan's Biological Warfare Program
A Plague upon Humanity: The Hidden History of Japan's Biological Warfare Program 3.99 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Night Fell on Georgia
Night Fell on Georgia liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Morbid Mandalas: A Creepy Coloring Book
Morbid Mandalas: A Creepy Coloring Book it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch 3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the magazine "Morbid Curiosity"
Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the magazine "Morbid Curiosity" 3.76 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud
Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud 3.45 avg rating — 3,157 ratings
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Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20
Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins 3.84 avg rating — 2,273 ratings
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More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered
More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered
by: D.P. Lyle
3.87 avg rating — 256 ratings
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The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries 3.42 avg rating — 1,444 ratings
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The Cause of Death: True Stories of Death and Murder From a New Zealand Pathologist
The Cause of Death: True Stories of Death and Murder From a New Zealand Pathologist 4.22 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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The Krays and Me
The Krays and Me 3.94 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Morbid Curiosity: The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous
Morbid Curiosity: The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous 3.60 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity 4.27 avg rating — 3,610 ratings
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The Chicken-Fried Rat: Tales Too Gross to Be True
The Chicken-Fried Rat: Tales Too Gross to Be True 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession 3.79 avg rating — 9,867 ratings
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