TWENTIETH CENTURY CRIMES by MacKenzie, Frederick A - 1927

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1927. (viii) 273 pp. Black cloth lettered in red on the front panel and spine; red upper edge; illustrated with black and white plates. Light wear on the corners with a bend at the spine and some minor rubbing on the panels; no dustjacket; previous owner's name in pencil on the front free endpaper; hinges tight; gutters intact. The Contents are: The Poor Rich Boys: Chicago; The Murder of Bobbie Franks; The Confession of Nathan Leopold; The Motive; The Trial Opens; The Psychiatrists Testify; The Magic of Clarence Darrow. The Fakir Who Wrecked a Throne: The Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna; Jekyll and Hyde; The Power Behind the Throne; The Murder of Rasputin; After the Murder. The Murder of the Czar: From Tsarskoe Selo to Tobolsk; Prisoners of the Ural Council; The Death Cellar at Ekaterinburg. The Stockholm Dynamite Murder. The Tragic Melodrama of Steinie Morrison: The Prelude in Sidney Street; The Gentleman Burglar; The Mystery of Leon Beron; Why the Defence Failed. Killing by Proxy: The Shooting of Herman Rosenthal; The Trial of Lieutenant Becker; The Vindication of Law. The Lawyer Who Went Wrong - Abe Hummel. Murder Wholesale: The Profession of Assassin; The Process at Versailles; and Guillotine.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo.