Our newest Featured Collection on display in the reference reading room offers stories of true crime in Texas. Selected titles highlight some of the most notorious cases in Texas history. Journalist Steve Sellers exposes a sheriff’s department in East Texas whose officers abused drivers and the legal system in, “Terror on Highway 59.” Winner of the 1977 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, Thomas Thompson’s “Blood Money” details the mystery surrounding the death of a Houston socialite and the subsequent murder of her husband. Read about deeply reported and compelling events like these in the other books on view.
To search for these books and more, check out our catalog at www.tsl.texas.gov/catalog. If you are interested in checking out a title on our Featured Collection shelf, please visit the reference desk in room 109. Below is the complete list of titles you’ll find on our Featured Collection shelf this month.
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Title |
Author |
Call No. |
Collection |
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Selena: como la flor |
Patoski, Joe Nick |
782.42164 P274s |
Main |
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The man with the candy; the story of the Houston mass murders |
Olsen, Jack |
364.1523 OL8 |
Main |
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Bad boy from Rosebud: the murderous life of Kenneth Allen McDuff |
Lavergne, Gary M. |
364.15 L388b |
Main |
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Blood aces: the wild ride of Benny Binion, the Texas gangster who created Vegas poker |
Swanson, Doug J. |
364.1092 Sw24b |
Main |
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Blood and money |
Thompson, Thomas |
364.1523 T378B |
Main |
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Evil among us: the Texas Mormon missionary murders |
Driggs, Ken |
364.15 D832e |
Main |
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Fetch the devil: the Sierra Diablo murders and Nazi espionage in America |
Richmond, Clint |
364.1523 R414f |
Main |
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Legends & lore of the Texas Capitol |
Cox, Mike |
725.11028 C839L |
Main |
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Poison for profit |
McKinnon, Mac B. (Mac Byrton) |
364.1523 M216p |
Main |
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Ten Deadly Texans |
Yadon, Laurence J. |
364.1092 Y106t |
Main |
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Terror on highway 59 |
Sellers, Steve |
070.924 SE48T |
MAIN |
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The bridge: a true account of the most horrible crime in the history of Fayette County, Texas |
Freudenberg, Gene L. |
976.4251 F895b |
Main |
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The Carrasco tragedy: eleven days of terror in the Huntsville prison |
House, Aline |
365.641 H816C |
Main |
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The day Kennedy died |
Wise, Dan |
923.173 K3835w |
Main |
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The midnight assassin: panic, scandal, and the hunt for America’s first serial killer |
Hollandsworth, Skip |
364.152 H719mi |
Main |
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The Zani murders |
Fero, Kelly |
364.1523 F399Z |
MAIN |
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True stories of crime from the District attorney’s office |
Train, Arthur Cheney |
920.7 T682t |
Main |
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Texas Monthly on– Texas true crime |
Smith, Evan |
Z UA380.8 T312TR |
TXD |
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A sniper in the tower: the Charles Whitman murders |
Lavergne, Gary M. |
Z N745.8 SN36 1997 |
TXD |
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Death on the lonely Llano Estacado: the assassination of J.W. Jarrott, a forgotten hero |
Neal, Bill |
Z N745.8 N25de |
TXD |
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Eleven days in hell: the 1974 Carrasco prison siege in Huntsville, Texas |
Harper, William T. |
Z N745.8 H234el |
TXD |
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No hope for heaven, no fear of hell: the Stafford-Townsend feud of Colorado County, 1871-1911 |
Kearney, James C. |
Z N745.8 K214no |
TXD |
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The girl in the grave: and other true crime stories |
Stowers, Carlton |
Z S850.8 ST79gi |
TXD |
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The trials of Eroy Brown: the murder case that shook the Texas prison system |
Berryhill, Michael |
Z UA380.8 B459TR |
TXD |