The complete online text of Celebrated Crimes (Complete) by Alexandre Dumas, père.

Alexandre Dumas (1803-1870), the prolific French author of plays, popular romances, and historical novels, wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas is generally called Dumas père to distinguish him from his illustr...

Despite their unflagging worldwide popularity, their perennial availability, and their innumerable cinematographic adaptations, the works of Alexandre Dumas père have been largely unappreciated by critics. There has been, for some time now, a spec...

The dramatic writings of Alexandre Dumas père, long absent from publishers' booklists and often granted little more than la portion congrue (an extremely small place) in critical assessments of his literary corpus, seem today to be experiencing so...

More than 80 years after Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston, they still inspire impassioned debate about whether they were guilty of the murders of two men during a 1920 payroll robbery.But in a new exhibit at the state's highest court, the...

In the annals of celebrity crime, record producer Phil Spector's murder trial may stand as one of the strangest.The saga of a forgotten music industry legend and a fading cult movie actress found dead in his hilltop castle is the stuff of film noir, those...

In the annals of celebrity crime, record producer Phil Spector's murder trial may stand as one of the strangest.The saga of a forgotten music industry legend and a fading cult movie actress found dead in his hilltop castle is the stuff of film noir, those...