GIANCANA, ANTOINETTE AND RENNER, THOMAS C. RENNER

Mafia Princess

London, George Allen and Unwin. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0049230778). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First printing (printed in the United States). Sam Giancana was once the most powerful Mafia boss west of the Mississippi, the Chicago mafia's successor to Al Capone. Now 9 years after his gangland slaying, his daughter has made public the details of her father's life and the trauma of growing up under his iron rule - all the power, corruption, luxury, and violence that came with being a mafia princess. 23. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 006252

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: American Mafia, Sam Giancana, Al Capone, Chicago Crime 0049230778

BELL, COLIN

Murder Trail - Death for a Living

London, Granada. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 023305099x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with Fine complete dustjacket. A revealing insight into the minds and methods of murderers, 8 multiple or high profile cases - David Berkowitz - Son of Sam; Angela Buono and Kenneth Bianchi - The Hillside Stranglers; David Carpenter - The Trailside Killer; Bobby Joe Long; Richard Ramirez - The Nightstalker; Erik and Lyle Menendez; Aileen Wuornos - The Truckstop Killer; Ivam Milat - The Backpack Murderer. 42 photographs in colour and black and white. A1B. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 002501

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: Serial Killers 023305099x

BLOCK, EUGENE

Fingerprinting

London, Franklin Watts. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0851664350). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A Very Good+ unmarked copy apart from a touch of foxing to fore edge with VG+ price clipped dustjacket. The stories behind many 'firsts' in the history of crime, including the most famous art thief in history who was identified by means of his fingerprints. At times the art of identification can be extraordinarily difficult and odd, as in the case of a hand found in the belly of a shark, a mummy four years old in a cold warehouse, a charred French corpse, two dismembered women of Lancaster - police were able to use all of these people (or parts of people) as clues in solving baffling mysteries. NOT EX LIB C3B. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004983

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: True Crime 0851664350

BRINSON, JEAN SMALL

Murderous Memories - One Woman's Hellish Battle to Save Herself

New Jersey, New Horizon Press. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0882821261). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Gold title on quarter black cloth with red card boards which are clean and unmarked with a touch of bumping to a few corner tips. Internally clean and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket is complete with a little shelf creasing. The true story of a 14 year old girl on a tobacco farm in South Carolina, whose father is lying sprawled out on his bed, naked but for his shorts, this time he is not sleeping off a drunken stupor, he is dead and there is a pool of blood forming. As the girl stares at him she remembers her mother's cries as he beat her and how he laughed as he played his favourite game of throwing knives at them. As the girl grows up she is haunted by an undefinable fear, terror and obsession and her condition worsens after she marries, repeatedly attempting suicide and develops severe psychological disorders, manifesting in multiple personalities. After two years of intensive hypnosis therapy to integrate her other selves and to unveil the horrors of the day her father was murdered there is much debate over the issue of false versus fake recovered memories. B2E. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002368

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: South Carolina, Tobacco Farm, Psychological Disorders, Multiple Personalities 0882821261

BRITTON, PAUL

Picking Up the Pieces

London, Bantam. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 0593045092). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, First printing. A Very Good + unmarked copy with light age fading to page edges with Very Good + dustjacket. The author was a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist, adviser to the Chief Police Officers' Crime Committee and currently teaches. A companion volume to his previous 'The Jigsaw Man', he provides insight into the process of unlocking and deciphering the truth, insight into the complex organism - the human mind, full of fascinating and disturbing true cases. NOT EX LIB C3A. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002883

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: Forensic Psychology 0593045092

CLARKSON, WESLEY

Hitmen - True Stories of Street Executions

London, John Blake. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 1904034527). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, First printing. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ complete dustjacket. In this book the author, an investigative journalist, lifts the lid on the lives of these most specialised of assassins - a hard look at professional killers, the people who hire them and the people who die at their hands. 22. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 004981

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: True Crime, Assassins 1904034527

COLLINS, STEVE

The Good Guys Wear Black - the Real-Life Heroes of the Police's Rapid-Response Firearms Unit

London, Century. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0712677283). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has some creasing to lower corner of a few pages with VG dustjacket which has a little creasing. A fascinating inside story of SO19, the Metropolitan Police Special Firearms Wing where the author, Sergeant Steve Collins, SAS trained, who leads Black Team, the hardest and most renowned team within the unit.The Book reveals how special forces are brought onto the streets of London. A vivid and frank account of a force never before written about. NOT EX LIB B2A. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002634

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: So19, Metropolitan Police Special Firearms Unit 0712677283

ELIOT, MARC

Kato Kaelin : The Whole Truth - the Real Story of O.J. , Nicole and Kato from the Actual Tapes

New York, Harper Collins. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 0061009814). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Kato Kaelin lived with O.J. Simpson and his wife Nicole and was a confidant of both and what they told him he related to the author, detailing virtually every detail of the days leading up to and following the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. 100. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 003668

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: O.J. Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman Murders 0061009814

FIDO, MARTIN

The Crimes, Detection and Death of Jack the Ripper

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297791362). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with age darkening to page edges with VG+ complete dustjacket. The book re-examines all the sensational details of the murders ascribed to Jack the Ripper, investigating the roles and reliability of the various policemen involved, analysing the evidence against all the suspects, and from an exhaustive search of original documents, the author has provided a convincing identification of Jack the Ripper. B2B. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004805

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: True Crimes 0297791362

GRIBBLE, LEONARD

Clues That Spelled Guilty

London, John Long. 1961, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red title on black boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally clean and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket by Eisnerhas three small repaired closed tears and is not price clipped. 192 pages. 12 cases of international detective exploits in which success was determined by the correct reading of a vital clue and which range over the globe, from a kampong in Malaya to a sinister villa in Provence, from a London fog to a road house ouside Chicago, from thronged Bondi Beach to a deserted mountain slope in California, from Berlin before the Kaiser's war to Paris after Napoleon's. The record of the genius of the detectives has a fascination more than crime fiction. B2B. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 003268

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: True Crime Detection, International Famous Detectives

HARRISON, SHIRLEY

The Diary of Jack the Ripper

New York, Hyperion. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 1562827049). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST US edition, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with red title on quarter black cloth with black boards. Dustjacket is also Fine and not price clipped. 323 pages. There have been many theories as to the identity of Jack the Ripper and in this book the author believes that the answer may lie in the recently discovered diary found in Liverpool, England which states 'Yours truly, Jack the Ripper'. In it are grisly details of the murders of 1888-1889 and many clues that identify the murderer as James Maybrick, a cotton merchant from Liverpool who died in 1889 of suspected arsenic poisoning. In another celebrated case of the day Maybrick's wife Florie was accused of his murder but, as we read in the diary, his death was probably the result of his arsenic addiction. The diary is the subject of controversy and a report questioning it's authenticity is included along with a rebuttal. Illustrated by photographs and drawings and a facsimile of the diary. 21. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 002328

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: James Maybrick 1562827049

BARNETT, HELEN AND ARMITAGE, HELEN

Urban Warrior - My Deadly Life with the Police Armed Response Unit

London, Blake. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 185782322x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A near Fine unmarked copy with a small indentation to front with near Fine complete dustjacket. Helen Barnett was an elite member of the secretive SO19, the London equivalent of a US SWAT team, authorised to kill, where the daily challenges ranged from armed hostage situations to IRA bombs and schizophrenic knifemen. Known among her fellow officers for having the highest arrest record, it is an astonishing tale of her triumph in pursuit of her goal and of the violent attacks and psychological trauma she survived on the way. 14 illustrations. NOT EX LIB 21. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 003980

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: Uk Police Armed Response Unit, So19, Biography 185782322x

INNES, BRIAN

Bodies of Evidence - the Fascinating World of Forensic Science and How It Helped Solve More Than 100 True Crimes

Kettering, Northants, Index. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 1897884699). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from minor indentations to rear top edge) with pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket. Dustjacket is complete and VG +. The author is a research biochemist who has written extensively on forensic science investigation and is a member of the Crime Writers' Association. Featured cases include - Ted Bundy - Florida, 1978; John Wayne Gacy - Chicago, 1995; The Unabomber; The Kennedy Assassination; Lockerbie Air Crash, The Yorkshire Ripper;The Boston Strangler; The World Trade Center Bombing; Hitler Diaries; Aum Shiriko Gassing - Tokyo, 1995; Reagan Assassination Attempt. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.1 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST 23. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 003973

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: Forensic Science, Ted Bundy, Unabomber, Boston Strangler, Aum-Shiriko Gassing, Kennedy Assassination 1897884699

ROBINS, JOYCE AND ARNOLD, PETER

Serial Killers and Mass Murderers

London, Chancellor Press. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 1851523634). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket which has age darkening to page edges with VG+ complete dustjacket. Not a book for the squeamish, it features the true life stories of the most brutal and depraved killers which have shocked the civilized world, from the classic cases of previous centuries to the current time. Illustrated with photographs. C3B. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004659

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: True Crime, Mass Murderers, Jack the Ripper, Vlad the Impaler, Vampire of Dusseldorf 1851523634

LEWIS, DAVID L.

Prisoners of Honour - the Dreyfus Affair

London, Cassell. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 030429487x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked with VG+ dustjacket. Chronology, index and 45 illustrations. The cause celebre of the nineteenth century resulting in mass protests in Europe and America and Zola's famous 'J'Accuse'. The Dreyfus Affair began with the persecution of the French Army's most promising Jewish officer, and caused the downfall of a government, raising anti-semitism to a national level. NOT BOOK CLUB NOT EX LIB 311. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 000539

Catalogue: True Crime / Trials

Keywords: Alfred Dreyfus Affair, Emile Zola, Devil's Island, J'Accuse, Anti Semitism 030429487x