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Scarborough: A Signet Book New American Library Times Mirror Published by The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1979. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front Cover; Moderate Creasing on Rear Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. THE SHERLOCK HOLMES WITH A MICROSCOPE VIVIDLY DISSECTS HIS GREATEST CASES... SUB-TITLE: The Memoirs of Milton Helpern, the World's Greatest Medical Detective. BOOK NUMBER: 451-E8607. CONTENTS: Foreword by Bernard Knight, M.D.; Chapter 1 Beginnings; Chapter 2 Poison Without a Trace--The Coppolino Trials; Chapter 3 I Call It The Office; Chapter 4 Nothing But the Truth--The Art of Being an Expert Witness; Chapter 5 An Epidemic of Sorts; Chapter 6 The Importance of First Impressions; Chapter 7 Writing the Book on Legal Medicine; Chapter 8 New England Justice; Chapter 9 Some Reasons for Murder; Chapter 10 The Crimmins Case; Chapter 11 The Career Girl Murders;… Read More

Toronto: Popular Library, 1962. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. From the Lana Turner-Stompanato case to the Virginia Hill-Bugsy Siegel caper, here is the shocking, intimate story of the world's most glamorous--and scandalous--suburb. BOOK NUMBER: SP161. ALSO KNOWN AS: This book has appeared in a British edition and in a Spanish edition in Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of South America. PHOTO CREDITS: Wide World Photos (3); Historical Collection Security - First National Bank of Los Angeles (1); Lynn Pelham from Rapho-Guillumette (1). CONTENTS: 1. Rich Man's Town; 2. Clara Bow's Midnight Visitor; 3. How Patrols Catch Crooks; 4. Almost a Hero; 5. No Paradise for Policemen; 6. Wolves and Women; 7. Lana and Johnny; 8. A Gallery of Stylish Swindlers; 9. Society Racketeers 10. I Remember Walburga 11. The Butler Did It 12. Burglars in the Hills 13.… Read More

Toronto: A Christopher Ondaatje publication Pagurian Press, 1982. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Previous Owner Markings (Black and White Illustrations (Portraits) on Pages 67, 70, and 138 Have Been Neatly Coloured Using Some Type of Coloured Marker That Has Bled (Minimally to Other Pages), with No Impediment to Text); Repaired by Previous Owner; First Page of Front Matter Missing (Presumed Blank Page Housing Library Pocket); Light Creasing on Spine; Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Over 1 Million Copies Sold. SUB-TITLE: The True Story of Canada's Most Barbaric Feud. CONTENTS: Introduction; CHAPTER I "Jim Donnelly Came to Lucan--"; CHAPTER II The Murder of John Farrell; CHAPTER III They're Going to Hang Jim Donnelly; CHAPTER IV The Fires Begin to Break Out; CHAPTER V The Return of Jim Donnelly; CHAPTER VI John Law Steps In; CHAPTER VII "They Started Up a Stagecoach Line--"; CHAPTER VIII What… Read More

New York: Bantam Books a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1989. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. COVER ART: Alan Ayers. CONTENTS: Cast of Characters; Prologue: The Education of Jack Blum; Part One The Cocaine Explosion; Part Two A Nation for Sale; Part Three On the Ragged Edge of Anarchy; Part Four War Without Will; Endgames; Notes and Sources; Acknowledgments; Index. SYNOPSIS: DEATH. POWER. MONEY. THE COCAINE WARS It is the world's most valuable commodity. It is a business bigger than the Ford Motor Company. It is cocaine, and a single, ruthless, savagely sophisticated entity controls the empire: the Colombian Cartel. For two and a half years, the authors lived on the front lines of this story, and they provide an astonishing, disturbing inside look at the Cartel and its operators: the millionaires and enforcers, the smugglers… Read More

New York: Crescent Books a division of Crown Publishers Inc BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Blue Bleed to Reverse Side from Boards); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 189755. ALSO KNOWN AS: This material first appeared in Crimes and Punishment copyright 1973/76 Phoebus Publishing Company. CONTENTS: The Acid Bath Blood-drinker; The Happy Poisoner; The Triangle Fire; The Fraternity of Torture; The Beast in the Bedroom; The Bedroom Killer; Doctor Death; Doctor Crippen; The Black Dahlia; A Poisoner in the Family; "She's Been Used!"; The Blazing Car Murder; Nightmare at the YWCA; The Fatal Fantasies of Ronald True; The Spanish Fly Murders; The Honeymoon Murder; On the Trail of a Rapist; The Vampire of Dusseldorf; Murder Most Foul; The Maids of Horror; An Expert Slaughterman; L'Ogresse; The Beast of the… Read More

Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; Slight Fading to Spine Portion Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The incredible true story of the hijacking, escape, and years of hiding. SYNOPSIS: As the first successful hijacker of an American airliner, D. B. Cooper became a national legend. Here is the true chronicle of D. B. Cooper, the legendary hijacking, and what happened to him afterward. This astonishing and extraordinarily gripping account finally brings to light the entire story. It began several months after the hijacking, when Cooper wrote to author Max Gunther, offering to collaborate on a book; then, apprehensive, Cooper backed off. Ten years later, "Clara," the woman who helped Cooper escape and who lived with him afterward, contacted Gunther and told him the whole story,… Read More

New York: Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc., 1993. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. The chilling true story of a prominent Dallas minister indicted for the near-fatal strangling of his wife. COVER PHOTO BY: Judy Walgren/The Dallas Morning News. SYNOPSIS: A SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF GREED, LUST, AND VIOLENCE. Walker Railey was a charismatic young Dallas minister whose powerful sermons drew crowds to the First United Methodist Church. He had a lovely wife, two perfect children, and a brilliant future. Then the threatening letters began. "Easter is when Christ arose," began one, "but you are going down." On April 21, 1987, two days after Easter, Walker Raily found his wife, Peggy, lying on the floor of their garage: someone had tried to strangle her. She would never regain consciousness, and remains in a… Read More

New York: Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc., 1993. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. The chilling true story of a prominent Dallas minister indicted for the near-fatal strangling of his wife. COVER PHOTO BY: Judy Walgren/The Dallas Morning News. SYNOPSIS: A SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF GREED, LUST, AND VIOLENCE. Walker Railey was a charismatic young Dallas minister whose powerful sermons drew crowds to the First United Methodist Church. He had a lovely wife, two perfect children, and a brilliant future. Then the threatening letters began. "Easter is when Christ arose," began one, "but you are going down." On April 21, 1987, two days after Easter, Walker Raily found his wife, Peggy, lying on the floor of their garage: someone had tried to strangle her. She would never regain consciousness, and remains in a vegetative state to… Read More

New York: Knightsbridge Publishing Company, 1991. Light Impressions in Rear Cover (Previous Owner Has Used Book as Support When Writing Something); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. True Stories of Crimes Committed by People Who Live Above the Law. BOOK NUMBER: 60. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Preface; INTRODUCTION Is Diplomatic Immunity Really Necessary CHAPTER ONE Rape CHAPTER TWO Beyond the Law CHAPTER THREE The Other Side of the Coin CHAPTER FOUR "Keep Calm" CHAPTER FIVE Drug Dealing Diplomats CHAPTER SIX The Bag CHAPTER SEVEN A Question of Morality CHAPTER EIGHT Diplomatic Slavers CHAPTER NINE Daylight Robbery CHAPTER TEN A Free Ride CONCLUSION Where Do We Go From Here?; Index. SYNOPSIS: A woman is brutally raped, yet her attacker goes free. A man is fatally hit by a car, and the driver is not charged with a crime. Drug smugglers are seized, kidnappers identified, thieves caught in the act--and… Read More

New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1964. Repaired; Previous Owner Markings (Name Neatly Inked to First Page of Front Matter); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining); Slight Yellowing Due to Age. The world-famed detective presents: murders, mayhems and assorted iniquities from the four corners of the earth. SUB-TITLE: A Dell Mystery. BOOK NUMBER: 2260. ALSO KNOWN AS: The material in this book was originally published in The American Weekly. CONTENTS: SOUTHERN SPAIN: The Beautiful Lady of El Puerto; JAPAN: Tokyo's Greatest Bank Robbery; NORMANDY: Inspector Fosse's Last Case; ARGENTINA: The Butcher of Buenos Aires; RUMANIA: The Swindler of Adamolis; ALGERIA: The Strangled Bride of Oran; MEXICO: The Jaws of Death; INDIA: The Curse of Kali; YUGOSLAVIA: Crime Wave, Balkan Style; ECUADOR: The Mysterious Shooting at the Nacional; PARIS: The Young Man… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Heavily Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price-Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Heaving Fading to Spine Portion Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. DESIGNED BY: Laurence Alexander. JACKET PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPH OF PATRICIA CAMPBELL HEARST: Alex Gotfryd. JACKET TYPOGRAPHY BY: Peter R. Kruzan. SYNOPSIS: On February 4, 1974, in one of the most startling acts of an unsettled era, Patricia Campbell Hearst was kidnapped by a group of terrorists calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. In intimate detail, Ms. Hearst tells the whole story here for the first time. Her violent abduction shocked the world, but was only the first in a five-year… Read More

New York: A Dell Book Published by Dell Publishing a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1989. Previous Dealer Markings (Store Stamp to Reverse of Front Cover); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: The Casebook of a Modern Sherlock Holmes. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 A Moonlighting Criminalist 2 A Spattering of Evidence 3 The Black Panther Shoot-out-/in 4 Portrait in Blood 5 A Serpent's Tooth 6 A Corpus Delicti Is Not a Corpse 7 The Piper Pays. SYNOPSIS: "In the course of a trial, defense and prosecution attorneys may lie, witnesses may lie, the defendant may lie, even the judge may lie. Only the evidence never lies." So says colorful, crusty Herbert Leon MacDonell. He's been called in as an expert witness in the most sensational murder cases of the past wo decades--the assassinations… Read More

New York: Bantam Books a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1989. Previous Owner Markings ("Property Of" Stamp on Reverse of Front Cover Has Been Coloured Over with Black Marker, Which Has Bleed-Through to Front Cover); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front Cover Moderately Chipped; Rear Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MINI-SERIES FROM CBS. SUB-TITLE: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring. TV TIE-IN: This book was the basis for the 1990 Made-for-Television mini-series of the same name. CONTENTS: Prologue; PART ONE Unmasked PART TWO The Past PART THREE Traitor PART FOUR Family PART FIVE Michael PART SIX Exposed PART SEVEN John; Author's Note; Index. SYNOPSIS: WHO IS JOHN WALKER AND WHY DID HE BETRAY OUR COUNTRY? In October 1967, John Walker, an officer in the U.S. Navy strolled into the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., and said, "I want to sell you top… Read More

New York: A Discus Book Published by Avon Books A division of The Hearst Corporation, 1981. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: None, As Issued. CONTENTS: PART 1 UNMASKING SEXUAL OPPRESSION 1 On Studying Sexual Slavery 2 Josephine Butler: the First Wave of Protest 3 Victims and Survivors PART II Female Sexual Slavery 4 The Traffic in Sexual Slaves 5 Pimping: The Oldest Profession 6 Throwaway Women 7 Patricia Hearst: "Did I Ever Have a Chance?" PART III THE POLITICS OF SEXUAL DOMINATION 8 Sex Colonization 9 Pornography: The Ideology of Cultural Sadism 10 From Violence to Values...And Beyond; Appendix A--INTERPOL Report; Appendix B--Convention Signatories; Chapter Notes; Index. EDITION: First Thus; Hardcover Without Dust Jacket, As Issued; Library Binding; As Mass Market Paperback: 1st Edition 1st Printing. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kathleen Barry is a feminist and… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap A Filmways Company, 1978. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Moderately Soiled. BOOK NUMBER: 14631. CONTENTS: Mass Murder; A Touch of the Mafia; Marriage and Death; Fancy Clothes and Fast Living; Where are They?; Bibliography. SYNOPSIS: Kidnapping . . . Murder . . . Missing Persons. The incidents in this book are true. No facts have been changed. No names have been deleted. And none of the crimes have been solved. These are true stories of Great Unsolved Mysteries. Try your deductive powers on some of the most baffling cases of the twentieth century and see if you can solve them. Can you succeed where the police have failed? THE MAD BUTCHER OF KINGSBURY RUN Cleveland, 1935. Two schoolboys find a pair of headless male bodies. Over the next three years, eleven more mutilated bodies are found in the area. The killer has never been identified. A UNION AFFAIR Detroit, 1975. Teamster leader Jimmy… Read More

New York: A Leisure Book Published by Nordon Publications, Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Front Cover, Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: Mercenary. BOOK NUMBER: LB 388DK. COVER: Cover photograph posed for by professional model. SYNOPSIS: THE GREEN AND BLOODY LAND Charles Albert Cubrick, formerly of Oswego, Michigan, is a paid killer, a mercenary. The name he uses when fighting in foreign wars is a phony. If his real name were divulged he would lose his U.S. citizenship and face possible prosecution. His last "job" was in blood-spattered, bullet-wrecked Northern Ireland. The British don't hire mercenaries so he fought for the murderous Provisional branch of the IRA. Cubrick earned three Bronze stars in Vietnam, so he knows how to kill. It's the only trade he knows. He likes it.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Agoura: Paisano Publications, Inc. Agoura Nationally Distributed by Dell Distributing, Inc., 1982. Repaired; 1 cm x 2.1 cm Piece Missing From Upper Corner of Front Cover; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front Cover Heavily Chipped; Rear Cover Moderately Chipped; Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. THE STORY OF THE NEW MEXICO PENITENTIARY RIOT. SYNOPSIS: The terror lasted for thirty-six hours... When it was over, thirty-three people were dead. New Mexico State Penitentiary... Time magazine called it "the nation's most notorious prison." On February 2, 1980, the suppressed anger, the despair, the bitter fury erupted with sudden, mind-searing violence. W. G. Stone was there. He witnessed the beatings, the stabbings, the rape, the torture. This is his eyewitness account.. First Edition 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Zebra Books Kensington Publishing Corp., 1990. Repaired; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Heavily Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining); Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. CONTENTS: The Intrusion; I THE PLAYERS - Bill; Robin; II THE INVESTIGATION - The Discovery; The District Attorney; The Search; Clues; The Gray House; Strange Bedfellows; Odd Jobs; The Silver Toyota; The Arrest; Adversaries; The Confession; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Bibliography. SYNOPSIS: A brilliant Tufts University research scientist, Professor William Douglas roamed Boston's porno district looking for sex. And when the devoted husband and father of three met Robin Benedict, a beautiful commercial artist and high-paid prostitute, his life changed forever. Fascinated and overwhelmed by their sexual encounters, Douglas would do anything for Robin--including embezzling his university research grants to pay for her time.… Read More

New York: Bonanza Books, distributed by Outlet Book Company, Inc., a Random House Company, 1990. BOOK:: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. Illustrated with more than 250 black-and-white photographs. BOOK DESIGN BY: Jean Krulis. JACKET DESIGN BY: Melissa Ring. CONTENTS: The History of the Ten Most Wanted List; Before the Ten Most Wanted List; The 1950s; The 1950s Rogues' Gallery; The 1960s; The 1960s Rogues' Gallery; The 1970s; The 1970s Rogues' Gallery; The 1980s; The 1980s Rogues' Gallery; The Current Ten Most Wanted List; Afterword; A Chronological Listing of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives"; How to Contact the FBI. SYNOPSIS: The FBI's Most Wanted Program officially began on March 14, 1950, when Director J. Edgar Hoover named "Tough Tommy" Holden, a convicted train robber and prison escapee, number one on the first Ten most… Read More

Toronto: Random House of Canada Limited, 1995. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Light Creasing on Front Cover; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Twelve true tales of fiendish schemes that came off without a hitch. Almost... SYNOPSIS: No such thing as Perfect Crimes? Witness this whirlwind tour of dirty deeds, sinister scandals, and cold-blooded murder--done in the name of love, money, madness, and more--from around the world or right next door. All of these notoriously wicked characters overlooked a fatal flaw that brought their almost perfect crimes to light. THE LONE WOLF Japanese jet-setter Kazuyoshi Miura had a talent for making money, a taste for lizard-skin boots, and a lust for leading trusting young women like lambs to the slaughter... CHOP CHOP MAN Mild-mannered maniac Jeffrey Dahmer wined his male guests with drugged drinks, and then dined on them--but the remains of… Read More