THE MURDER CASEBOOK by Wilson, Colin (editor) (F. A. Beaumont; Val Gielgud; Dorothy L. Sayers; George Cornish; Frank J. Wilson; J. Edgar Hoover; Benjamin Bennett; Roland Wild; Damon Wilson; John Godwin; George Vedder Jones; Molly Lefebure; David Rowen; Brad Steiger) - 2005

London: Magpie Books, 2005. 528 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine and some creasing in the lower right of the front cover; no interior markings. This anthology of true crime stories contains: ONE: Misapplied Ingenuity of a Bigamist: The Rouse Case by F. A. Beaumont; Man Hunters: The German Rouse Cases by F. A. Beaumont; The Otterburn Mystery by Val Gielgud; The Murder of Julia Wallace by Dorothy L. Sayers; The Vera Page Case by George Cornish; Winnie Ruth Judd by Geoffrey Homes; How We Trapped Capone by Frank J. Wilson; The Ma Barker Gang by J. Edgar Hoover; Crime of the African Crater by Benjamin Bennett; Samuel Furnace: History's Greatest Manhunt by Roland Wild; Georges Sarret: The Acid Bath Killer by Roland Wild; The Cleveland Torso Killer by Damon Wilson; The Rattlesnake Murder by Eugene D. Williams; Jerome Braun von Selz: The Laughing Killer by Allan R. Bosworth; An Axe for Frau Marek by Ignatz Peters; A Mixed Bag: Sylvestre Matuska, The Man Who Loved Trains, The Lindbergh Kidnapping, The Case of Jennie Donald, The Ronald Case, The Nancy Titterton Case, and The Mona Tinsley Case by Colin Wilson. TWO: By the Light of the Moon by Edward Radin; Gordon Cummins: The Blackout Ripper by Fred Cherrill; The Man Who Wanted Voices by John Godwin; I Always Wanted to Torture a Girl by George Vedder Jones; Harry Dobkin: The Skeleton in the Cellar by Keith Simpson; The Wigwam Murder by Molly Lefebure; The Heirens Case by Colin Wilson and William Heirens; Neville Heath: The Sadist by Percy Hoskins; The Porthole Murder by Dennis Hocking; Marcel Petiot: Murder for Profit by Alister Kershaw; The Black Dahlia by David Rowan; John Haigh: The Vampire Murderer by Colin Wilson; The Lonely Hearts Murders by Colin Wilson; The Cleft Chin Murder by Edgar Lustgarten; The Blackburn Child Murder by Tony Fletcher; Howard Unruh: The First of the Crazy Gunmen by Brad Steiger; and A Mixed Bag: The Assassination of Leon Trotsky, Bruno Ludke, The Texarkana Moonlight Murderer, Ley and Smith, The Lower Quinton Witchcraft Murder, and Charles Floyd by Colin Wilson.. Second Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Book.