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New York.: Riverhead Books / Penguin., 2008. First edition. 1st, this edition, no print line.. Trade paperback. Very good. Light wear. Clean. unmarked. Near fine.. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. 386 p. B&W portraits, photos. Audience: General/trade. Historical crime writing: Set in New York City, early 20th century America, the Gilded Age, brought forth a teen beauty and media phenomenon, Evelyn Nesbit. Pre-eminant architect Stanford White was among those under her spell. A love triangle would lead to White's assassination.
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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl, and the Crime of the Century
by Uruburu, Paula
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Beyond Belief; A Chronicle of Murder and Its Detection
by Williams, Emlyn
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New York.: Random House., 1967. First edition. First American edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Book volume near fine. Dustjacket edge and light cover wear; chips to top and bottom rear DJ spine at fold. 4 small random black dots on top page edges.. 1 xii, 354 p. 22 cm. Dark blue cloth covered boards. DJ: white with gray shovel imbedded behind orange & titles over olive green. Author achieves the "dual accuracy of history and of imaginative understanding, " in the account of the true murders of from 3 to 5 young victims in Great Britain from 1963 into 1965. A clerk and a typist were convicted to life imprisonment for the "Moors Murders".
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The Boardwalk Jungle: How greed, corruption, and the Mafia turn Atlantic City into...
by Demaris, Ovid
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Toronto / New York.: Bantam Books., 1986. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Light wear, minor scuffing to jacket.. 1 Black cloth and paper over boards. 436 p. Audience: General/trade. True Crime / Organized Crime / New Jersey / Politics / Gambling / Non-fiction: Journalist and author of "The Green Felt Jungle" about Las Vegas, Ovid Demaris, here offers up the inside stories of the casinos, resort complexes, and politics that changed a seaside haven into a "Mafia Mecca", in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor top page block soiling. Minor top jacket spine wear; light jacket scuffing.
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The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story
by Bourke, Angela
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Viking Penguin., 2000. First edition. 1st American edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1 Paper over boards. 279 p. B&W photos section. Audience: General/trade. True Crime: In 1895, Bridget Cleary, 26, disappeared from her cottage in rural Tipperary, Ireland. Rumors had been circulating that she was a changeling, but she was not reappearing in any recognizable form. Her badly burned body was discovered in a shallow grave. Her husband, father, aunt and 4 cousins were arrested and charged with her murder. The murder trial became a sensationalized theme in the new mass media and in that era's debate over Home Rule, feeding fears about the savagery of the Irish peasantry.
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Contemporary Criminal Law: Concepts, Cases, and Controversies
by Lippman, Matthew Ross
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Thousand Oaks CA.: Sage Publications., 2007. 2nd printing.. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Light cover wear. Clean interior, as new. No markings found.. 1 Glossy illustrated paper over boards. 650 p. Notes. Index. Audience: General/trade. Criminology textbook from recent graduate's library; authored by University of Illinois at Chicago Law academic. Themes: Constitutional Context; Criminal Responsibility; Parties, Vicarious Liability, Inchoate Crimes; Defenses; Crimes against Person, Habitation, Property, White Collar, Public Order, Morality, the State. Glossary; Case Index; Name/Subject Index.
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Crimes and Punishment: A Pictorial Encyclopedia of Aberrant Behavior (18 of 20-volume set)
by Hall, Angus (Edited by), and Paton, John (Editing Management by)
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England / Printed, USA.: The Symphonette Press / BPC Publishing., 1973. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Tight, square. Minor edge wear, light foxing. Missing volumes 4 and 20.. 18 18 volume near complete set. Hardcover series; Illustrated covers. Maroon textured paper over boards; white titles. B&W photos, illustrations. Each volume 140-150p. Criminology multi-volume history, each about a half-inch thick, chock-full of stories, images, themes, major cases, personalities, written by numerous contributing experts. Each volume spotlights 5 different types of "wrongdoing". Great resource for vintage era mystery writers and readers; history through early 1970s. Anticipate additional mailing cost due to quantity and accumulated weight.
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Criminal Investigation: A Method for Reconstructing the Past (5th Edition) with Study Guide, 2 volumes
by Osterburg, James W, and Ward, Richard H, and Miller, Larry S (Study Guide prepared by)
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Newark NJ.: Anderson Publishing / LexisNexis., 2007. 5th edition.. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Minor edge soiling.. 2 2 volume set. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 837 p. B&W Illustrations. Blue spot color. Study Guide: 236p. Audience: General/trade. Comprehensive textbook on a range of crimes, methodologies, FBI procedure. Includes case study of assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Criminology: Theories, Patterns, and Typologies (Tenth Edition)
by Siegel, Larry J
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Cengage Learning / Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2010. 10th Revised edition. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Minor cover wear. Interior as new.. 1 Illustrated glossy paper over boards. 576 p. B&W and color illustrations, photos, graphs, charts. Audience: General/trade. Historical bringing the student from a beginning overview of developing criminal law into the cybercrime era. Front end papers: Photos w/ Synopses of Criminological Theories. Rear end papers: Time Line of Criminological Theories.
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Danger, Disaster, and Horrid Deeds: Thrills, chills, and outrageous crimes from the pages of Yankee Magazine.
by Silitch, Clarissa M. (Editor)
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Yankee Books, 1974. First edition. Unabridged. Stated First Edition.. Hard cover. Fine in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. DJ has done its job, edges have small tears, chips, repaired from inside, clear tape; but book is great, with only small signature of prior owner w/date, 1977.. Kirkpatrick, Carl F. (Art direction by). 1 288 p. B&W photos; diagrams; drawings, with some shades of red design elements. True stories: "Dreadful Catastrophes, Perilous Predicaments, Sudden Death, Courageous Souls, and Utter Dastards. " A Chronology chart, 1710 through 1973, begins: 1710-1718 Black Sam Bellamy harries the Northeast Coast, attempts to found a 'Pirates-Only' colony at Machias, Maine, and finds his Maker when his ship 'Whydah' is dashed to bits on the rocks of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. " Some 55 events later, "1973 Summer: The third attempt to salvage the "'nsalvageable' 'Andrea Doria' comes to naught. " The ocean liner's…
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Everything She Ever Wanted: the True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder, and Betrayal
by Rule, Ann
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Pocket Books, 1993. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Top edge foxing.. 0 552p. B&W photo section. A story of puzzling family deaths (Allanson / Siler) in the Atlanta, GA, area, solved over two decades. A perpetrator who murdered with 'express malice' (Georgia statute).
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The Gentleman from Chicago: Being an Account of the Doings of Thomas Neill Cream, M.D. (M'Gill), 1850-1892
by Cashman, John (a pseudonym for a British attorney)
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New York.: Harper & Row., 1973. "A Joan Kahn-Harper Novel of Terror".. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Library markings; Minor spine tilt.. Noonan, Julia (Jacket art by).. 1 310 p. Joan Kahn-Harper Novel of Terror. Rear jacket photo of T.N. Cream. Audience: General/trade. "A Joan Kahn-Harper Novel of Terror". Fictionalized literary history. Psychological study of a serial killer, whose method was the poison strychnine. Thomas Neill Cream was later executed in London, where he had later taken up his Chicago perversion.
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The Holmes-Pitezel Case: A History of the Greatest Crime of the Century and the Search for the Missing Pitezel Children.
by Detective Frank P Geyer
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Book restoration needed: Loose binding; edge wear; soiling; partial torn-away frontispiece by 1/3rd; binding front and back loose to gauze; pencil-scribbles p. 314. Chronology, Chapter XXIV p. 345-370; 1860 (New Hampshire family history through 1894, May 10th through Nov. 30th). H.H. Holmes is reportedly an alias for the Chicago Fair serial murderer Herman Webster Mudgett. Few titles remain in the original of which this is one.
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In Cold Blood; A true account of a multiple murder and its consequences.
by Capote, Truman
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New York.: Random House., 1966. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Near fine: top page block light patches.. 1 Maroon cloth over boards. Maroon end papers. Gilt spine titles, front "T.C." Jacket in black borders, maroon and black titles against tan. 343 p. 22 cm. Title page red & black, plus B&W photos. True Crime: November 15, 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, 4 members of one family were savagely murdered by a shotgun held inches from each face. There was no motive, almost no clues. More than 5 years later, two killers were executed by hanging at the Kansas State Penitentiary. Author Truman Capote eloquently wrote this classic account of 6 lives and deaths. On copyright page: "Appeared originally in the New Yorker in slightly different form."
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Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal (Uncorrected Advance Proof)
by Follain, John
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New York.: Arcade Publishing., 1998. Advanced Reading Copy. . Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. 1 Trade paperback. 6x9.25in. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. Biography: Born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Carlos "The Jackel" was caught by counterespionage agents in 1994, after 20 years of shootings and bombings. He had skirted arrest partly by his own cleverness, partly by support from palestinian backers, and partly by blunders among western secret agents. Publisher's letter to Reviewer tucked inside, a bit rumpled.
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The Knife: the True Story of a Crime That Changed a Civilization
by Wright, Theon
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New York: Gilbert Press; distributed by Julian Messner, 1955. De Luxe Illustrated Edition. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. No marks. Minor DJ edgewear. I-inch tear to back DJ cover, bottom.. Anderson, Rus. 0 300 p. 22 cm. Bold B&W Illustrations. Light blue textured cloth covered boards. Black spine title. Illustrated endpapers. 16 pgs photos at end. One day, an Eskimo hunter from the Stone Age village of Agpat came home with a steel-edged knife. The people of the village had lived simply, sharing everything, including wives. Minor antagonisms existed, but no real crimes of passion, until the knife was there.
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Last Dance, Last Chance and Other True Cases (Crime Files: Vol. 8)
by Rule, Ann
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Pocket Books, 2003. Book Club Edition. 1st Pocket printing Jauary 2003. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 0 463 p. Includes illustrations. B&W Photo section, center. Black paper covered boards, gold spine titles. A Note on Liars (preface) and 5 stories in author's True Crime Files. Author B&W photo portrait on back cover by Jerry Bauer. Lead story: cosmetic surgeon Dr. Anthony Pignataro.
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Mafia Wife: My Story of Love, Murder, and Madness
by Milito, Lynda, And Potterton, Reg
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HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Light black book cover blemish.. 1 Paper over boards. 304 p. B&W photo section. Audience: General/trade. True Crime / Memoir: Wed as a teen in Brooklyn to a gang member who became a Gambino family operative, widowed after 22 years with her husband's body never found, and finally speaking out, Lynda Milito here tells her story. Themes of Mafia myths; money; betrayal; child molestation; marital abuse; living outside the law, estrangement from children.
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The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York
by Cohen, Patricia Cline
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Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Private library sticker residue at spine base. Book top edge has soil spot or small spill.. 1 Black and Gray paper over boards. 433 p. Grayscale 19th century illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Hailed as well-researched, this ia a true account of the courtroom drama that followed the 1836 murder of a well-established prostitute in New York. The sensationalist headlines, the seductive letters by the victim, the ex-lover defendent's clerical peers cheering in the courtroom, the moralistic political speeches, these are the societal patterns we see today.
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Outrage: the Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away With Murder
by Bugliosi, Vincent
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W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. 2nd printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 0 Cloth and Paper over boards. 356 p. Appendices. Notes. Appendices; LAPD interrogation of Simpson day after murders; Simpson's farewell letter; Blood evidence. The author had prosecuted the Charles Manson case on slim evidence. Here, he writes a convincing argument as to how the "mountain" of evidence, misused, against accused OJ Simpson in the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman should have brought a clear conviction rather than an acquittal in California.
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A Second Companion to Murder: A Dictionary...1900-1950
by Shew, Edward Spencer
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London / Melbourne / Sidney / Toronto.: Cassel & Company Ltd., 1961. First edition. Presumed 1st; no print line.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Slightly bowed covers. Clean interior. "Knopf" only in pencil on title page (from critic-editor's library). Top page block minor soiling.. 1 Black cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. 287p., 22 cm. Bibliography. Index. Reference with Table of Murder: crime cases, non-fiction mystery titles, listed for both "A Companion to Murder" and this sequel, newer listings denoted by italics. Editor-writer E Spencer Shew was himself a criminal court and political reporter. Sub-head to title lists many types of murder: "Death by the Knife, the Dagger, the Razor" (etc. ) This British volume was soon published by Knopf in the U.S.
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