true crime
Searching for true crime, thriller, crime scene, serial killer or other murder mystery sources (non-fiction books) or literary (fiction) criticism.
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True Crime Sources
Non-Fiction
Sources for this information type are addressed here by non and fictive accounts. Non-fiction sources can include the fields of criminology, psychology, sociology and many more, and seek to uncover the truth of the act or the motivation of the actor.
OneSearch is the online library catalog and will search results using keywords. Unless you have a specific idea or author, I suggest the using the following keywords:
- Murder Investigation
- Homicide investigation
- Forensics
- Cold Case
- Evidence
- Victim
- Suspect
- Crime Scene
- Serial Killer
- Justice
- Unsolved homicide
Apply search filters to limit to books or ebooks: Availability > Held By Library
Apply search filters to limit to non-fiction by Merced of Los Banos campuses: Location > Merced College Non-Fiction
Fiction
Literary mystery and detective fiction is a genre of crime fiction, often used to explore concepts of good and evil. OneSearch can help you choose authors of this genre. Popular authors include: Agatha Christie, Truman Capote, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others.
To locate more about these and other authors, or mystery detective fiction, Merced College librarians suggest the following databases from the list of A-Z Databases:
- Literature Resource Center
- Salem Press
- Gale Ebooks
- Ebsco Ebooks
- EbscoHost Web
Tip! apply the suggested keywords above into library databases to find concept definitions and thematic overviews.
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