📚 Criminals

24 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with criminals on their catalogue record, first published between 1764 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 24 works carrying the subject criminals in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 121,547 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Dei delitte e delle pene	Cesare Beccaria	1764	164
Crimes célèbres	Alexandre Dumas	1840	32
The Stranger Beside Me	Ann Rule	1980	28
You Can't Win	Jack Black	1926	25
Criminal Sociology	Enrico Ferri	1895	18
Capone	John Kobler	1971	17
Criminology	Edwin Hardin Sutherland	1934	14
Small sacrifices	Ann Rule	1987	14
Sleepers	Lorenzo Carcaterra	1995	14
The Napoleon of Crime	Ben Macintyre	1997	13
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes	David Grann	2010	12
Wiseguy	Nicholas Pileggi	1985	11
Ted Bundy	Stephen G. Michaud	1989	7
The Phantom Prince	Elizabeth Kendall	1981	6
The private diary of Lyle Menendez	Lyle Menendez	1993	6
Are Prisons Obsolete?	Angela Y. Davis	2003	6
American Kingpin	Nick Bilton	2017	6
The Valachi Papers	Peter Maas	1968	4
Buried dreams	Tim Cahill	1986	4
The mammoth book of true crime	Colin Wilson	1988	3
The want-ad killer	Ann Rule	1988	3
The end of the dream	Ann Rule	1999	3
A hangman's diary	Schmidt, Franz	1973	2
Casebook of a crime psychiatrist	James A. Brussel	1968	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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