Simon & Schuster, 2000. Hardcover. New in dust jacket. Hardcover. Map, genealogical chart, 327 pp. Illustrated. Fourth printing. In the spring of 1793 , eighteen year old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of thengreat Virginia tobacco planters, was accused, along with her brother-in-law, of killing her newborn infant.....
London: Constable, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. First ediiton/ printing. Fine (small previous owners sticker front free endpaper); in near fine dust jacket with some light soiling to the rear panel. Hardcover. 187 pp. Frontis photographic image of a clandestine photo of the guillotine taken a few moments afterthe execution of.....
Simon & Schuster, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. 312 pp. True memoirs of Norma Jean Almodovar, former LAPD officer who, disallusioned by corruption and hypocracy she saw, became a high-priced Beverly Hills prostitute. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Chicago: Regnery, 1954. Hardcover. Hatdcover. xviii+ 290 pp. with index. Illustrations. A tight, very good copy, some spotting near the outer hinges. In dust jacket, also very good, shallow craesing top edge and some foxing to the rear panel. An expose on Chicago Crime Syndicate and the corruption they spread.....
University Of Chicago Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. xv+ 217 pp. with index. Illustrations. Over the course of fifteen years, from 1877 to 1892, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered seven women in England and North America. All seven were prostitutes seeking abortions.....
Rutledge Hill Pr, 1991. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 382 pp. with index. Illustrations. Appendix of full inquest testimony of Lizzie Borden June 12, 1893. The true, factual record of one of the most famous crimes in American history, the murder of Andrew and Abby Borden in Fall.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. Hardcover. Hardcover in gray cloth stamped inblack and orange. 326 pp. photographic frontispiece of Inspector Byrnes and other officers holding a "rogue" for his mug shot. Additional full page drawings and engravings. Good, some soiling to the cloth (more so at the spine) and with.....
London: Fourth Estate/ HarperCollins, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. As new in dust jacket. Hardcover in illustrated cloth. xiii+ 850 pp. with index, extensive source list. Illustrated with photos and reproductions. More than just a radical reinterpretation of the Jack The Ripper legend, a work that reads like a......
Facts On File, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Oversized softcover (not issued in hardcover). Fine, apparently unread copy, tiny corner crease to the top front tip. 367 pp with index. Illustrated. Unique and comprehensive reference to what has been probably the most significant--and strongest--criminal organization in the world. With over 400.....
Hyperion, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. First edition stated. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xvi+232 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrations. The story of how fingerprints came to be used in criminal investigation. In England in 1905, a elderly couple were murdered in their shop--the only clue a single bloody fingerprint.....
New York and London: A.S. Barnes and Thomas Yoseloff, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. 252 pp. with index. Fine in somewhat toned dust jacket. The first definitive treatment of the genius-criminal; the book looks at the crimes of seven men and one women, whose transgressions ranged from embezzlement.....
Barnesly, U.K. Wharncliffe Books/ Pen & Sword, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. New in dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. xv+ 174 pp. with select bibliography. Profusely illustrated. An encyclopedic gazeteer of London murders from 1381 to the 21st century. Herein we find the famous killers like Jack the Ripper, Franz Muller.....
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2015. Hardcover. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket. No statement of edition. Hardcover. xiii+ 367 pp. with glossary of Italian slang, index. The true story of one of the the biggest robberies of all time and still the largest unrecovered cash haul in world history, the.....
University Press of Kentucky, 1998. Hardcover. Hardcover. In fine condition with a fine dustjacket. 300 pages with index.
New York: Kroy Wen Publishers, 1932. Hardcover. Very scarce. Hardcover in orange cloth lettered in black. 275 pp. Frontis and six additional photographic plates. A tight, bright example with some holing along the front gutter. In the virtually never seen dust jacket featuring an image of the child, chipping about.....
Akron: Werner Ptg & Litho Co, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in brick colored cloth woth spine lettered in gilt. Fronis portrait engraving of the author. 512 pp. with index. A tight, fine, bright example and quite unusual thus. Joseph Grannan, founder and operator of the Grannan Detective.....
Oak Knoll Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. xix+ 393 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrations. Fascinating look at literary forgers from late 17th-early 18th century George Psalmanazar, late 1700s "Ossian" James MacPherson, Thomas Chatterton, who invented a medieaval monk and his poetry, to.....
New York: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. 321 pp. plus appendix of documents. Illustrated. Explosive and controversial story of private eye, police informant and modern-day bounty hunter Kevin Maher. At times employed with the NYPD and FBI, Maher.....
London: Heinmann, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Inscribed on the half-title page in fountain pen, "To my good friend/ ____ ____ with thanks & best wishes/ Leonard Burt/ 10.6.59". Hardcoverin black cloth with spine lettered in silver. 246 pp. Illustrated with photographs. some spotting to the cloth. In orifginal.....
NY: Dillingham, 1912. First. Cloth. First edition. Scarce collection of true crime stories from New York City in the first decade of the 20th century. Featured are "Ike The Blood", "Indian Louie", "Big Mike Abrams", "The Cooking of Crazy Butch" and eight others. Illustrated with drawings. Light soiling to the.....
Walker & Company, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Firts edition/ printing. Fine, frest unread copy in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 358 pp. with index. Illustrated with vintage photographs and reproductions. A unique story of a byway in the history of Edison's harnessing of electricity. In 1879, Edison unveiled his world-changing invention---the.....
New York: Praeger, 1998. Hardcover. Hardcover. xii+ 213 pp. Fine except for some hand notations inside the rear cover. In near fine, lightly edge bumped dust jacket. A thought-provoking exploration of a rarity among mass murders, the female serial killer. The work shows the female serial murderer to be far.....
London: Heinemann, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. xix+ 315 pp. with index of names and index of subjects. Very good in dust jacket with short tape marks where it had been affixed to the book, closed tear foot of spine and some soiling to the spine. Scholarly work.....
Albany: Argus, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in navy blue cloth wth spine lettered in gilt; patterned endpapers. 228 pp. with index. Illustratared throughout with photographic plates of especially European prisons as a good portion of the report deals with the Association's fact-finding trip to Europe in 1911. A tight.....
McFarland & Company, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. In fine condition. Issued without dust jacket.
