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Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals

This international true crime anthology reveals more than a century of classy crooks and principled pirates from East Chicago to the South China Sea.

Sometimes the nicest people make the best criminals. This volume introduces real-life characters who broke the law for all the right reasons—or committed devious acts with the friendliest of faces. It features incredible stories from across the globe, written by award-winning crime writers, true-crime podcasters, and journalists such as Tom Larsen, David Blumenfeld, and Anthony Ferguson.

You’ll meet Freddie Brenman, the fearsome Chicago street-fighter and trusted friend of John Dillinger; Naún Briones, the Ecuadorian Robin Hood whose outlaw exploits are the stuff of legend; Ching Shih, the nineteenth-century lady pirate who fought Imperial China; and many others.

Mitzi Szereto

Mitzi Szereto is an internationally acclaimed author and anthology editor of fiction and non-fiction spanning many genres. Her books include her true crime franchise The Best New True Crime Stories series; the horror novel Florida Gothic; The Thelonious T. Bear Chronicles cozy mystery series (co-written with Teddy Tedaloo); the sex parody Pride and Prejudice: Hidden LustsGetting Even: Revenge Stories; and many other popular titles. Her anthology Erotic Travel Tales 2 is the first anthology of erotica to feature a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Mitzi's Web TV channel "Mitzi TV" has attracted an international audience. Segments have ranged from chatting about classic cars with Formula 1 race car driver/BBC TV presenter Tiff Needell and couture shoe designer Jimmy Choo, joining in a lively pub singalong, and covering a teddy bear festival with her ursine sidekick, Teddy Tedaloo. Other on-screen credits include portraying herself in the pseudo-documentary British film, "Lint: The Movie." She maintains a blog of personal essays at Errant Ramblings: Mitzi Szereto's Weblog.

Follow Mitzi on Twitter and Instagram @mitziszereto.

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