Now comes a Crime Rant Classic that is truly a true crime classic…you’re about to read Harry N. McLean’s stunning bestseller, Once Upon A Time. Harry is not only an Edgar Award winner (for his masterpiece, In Broad Daylight), he’s a lawyer whose understanding of the criminal justice system is really unparalleled. But that’s not why he really stand out in the True Crime section. Harry’s clean, dramatic prose is the real treat here. In fact, Harry’s writing reminds us of the late, great Jack Olsen, who just happened to be a major champion of Harry’s work. This Crime Rant Classic features a new epilogue written just for readers of this ebook edition.

Here’s what Publisher’s Weekly said about Harry’s classic:

This is a superb analysis of a case already widely publicized via 60 Minutes , a TV docudrama and Eileen Franklin’s book, Sins of the Father , written with William Wright: a murder committed in 1969 brought a conviction in 1990 because of testimony stemming from a previously repressed memory. Susan Nason, 8, was molested and killed near San Francisco and 20 years later Eileen Franklin, who had been her best friend, accused her own father, George, of the crime. No forensic evidence substantiated her allegation, but as details of George’s abuse of his five children–verbal, physical and sexual–emerged, the possibility grew that he could have committed murder. The case turned on the credibility of Eileen, who kept altering her story. Also looming large were the questions of accurate and false traumatic memories and of repression versus disassociation, which MacLean ( In Broad Daylight ) elucidates. In an epilogue, he presents his conclusion that Eileen was not a trustworthy witness–and his reasoning is highly credible.

Enjoy the ebook…and other Crime Rant Classics like M. William Phelps’s Dead People Don’t Walk Away or Gregg Olsen’s Taken in the Night.

Here’s what Publisher’s Weekly said about this Crime Rant Classic.

True-crime author Olsen tells how Sharon Nelson, a Colorado woman, had her lover Gary Adams murder two of her three husbands, one in 1983 and one in 1988. But more interesting than the crime itself is Olsen’s portrait of Nelson as a brash, trashy, manipulative sexpot who believed that she was entitled to?and got?everything and everyone she wanted: even her confession, given freely to police in a Pizza Hut in 1988, was anything but contrite. Moreover, Olsen records the recollections of many community members who saw Nelson for what she was, yet seemed oblivious to the adultery, theft and murder under their noses. The narrative does skip around a little, which can be confusing, but watching Nelson as she almost gets away with murder will fascinate long after the last page.

Don’t miss this or other great classic crime reads like M. William Phelps Chamber of Death or Gregg Olsen’s Crime of My Life.

While conducting interviews for a project, True Crime author and TV host M. William Phelps met and spoke to some of the most qualified, intelligent forensic experts in the world. One of his first interviews was with renowned forensic scientist Dr. Henry Lee.

Read this short ebook by one of the genre’s masters about a true crime legend.

Don’t miss this Crime Rant Classic or Once Upon a Time by Edgar Award winner Harry N. MacLean or Arthur Train’s classic Law & Order.

In this exclusive Crime Rant Classics ebook short, New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen introduces readers to the sensational kidnapping case that J. Edgar Hoover and his G-men couldn’t solve — the mystery of Tacoma’s Charlie Mattson, a little boy taken in the night more than eight decades ago.

Read the short ebook and see if you can help solve the crime…the information is out there!

Also don’t miss crime TV host’s M. William Phelps’s classic examination of crimes at the top of the political spectrum, Crimes of the Presidents or Pat Garrett’s classic, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid.