Complete Celebrated Crimes

French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. 

From 1839 to 1841, Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history. He featured Beatrice Cenci, Martin Guerre, Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, as well as more recent events and criminals, including the cases of the alleged murderers Karl Ludwig Sand and Antoine François Desrues, who were executed. 

CONTENTS 
THE BORGIAS 
THE CENCI—1598 
MASSACRES OF THE SOUTH—1551-1815 
MARY STUART—1587 
KARL-LUDWIG SAND—1819 
URBAIN GRANDIER—1634 
NISIDA—1825 
DERUES 
LA CONSTANTIN—1660 
JOAN OF NAPLES—1343-1382 
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK [An Essay] 
MARTIN GUERRE 
ALI PACHA 
THE COUNTESS DE SAINT-GERAN—1639 
MURAT—1815 
THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS 
VANINKA 
THE MARQUISE DE GANGES—1657