Search Results: True Crime from JimsOldBooks

Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild Ltd, 1995. Ex library copy with paper label inside front board, ink stamps on f/ep, title page and rev, and on top and bottom page edges, the unclipped dustwrapper has been covered in clear plastic, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the murder of William Neiman in an exploding pick-up truck in Monroe, Arizona in 1982. One John Foster was charged with the murder and spent seven years on Death Row, despite the author's attempts to persuade the authorities that he had seen two men, neither one being Foster, planting a device in Neiman's vehicle. Foster was eventually freed, but the real killers, linked, the author believes, with the Mafia, remain free. 262pp, diagram of the crime scene.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Edinburgh: Black and White, 2017. A tiny crease to lower corner of back cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. The author's memories of his twenty-four years working as a prison officer, mainly at Craiginches prison in Aberdeen. Signed by the author on f/ep. 253pp, 8pp colour illustrations.. Signed by Author. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1923. No dustwrapper, wear to the spine ends and corners of blue cloth-covered boards, original owner's bookplate inside front board and on old bookseller's ink stamp on f/ep, binding just starting to loosen at title page, otherwise a not too bad copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with four cases of men wrongly convicted of various crimes in the nineteenth century. Nameley: Adolf Beck (wrongfully convicted of Fraud in the 1890s), Joseph Lesurques (executed for his part in a mail coach robbery in the 1790s, although it was later found he was nowhere near the scene), Emile de La Ronciere (convicted of Rape in 1835, although the ''victim'' was later known to have lied), and Pierre Vaux (convicted of Arson and sent to the penal colony in French Guiana in 1852). 281pp.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Robson Books, 1997. Creasing to top edge of unclipped dustwrapper, particularly at the spine, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Looks at the history of execution and more so at executioners in Britain, Europe and North America. 256pp, numerous b&w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edinburgh: Black and White Publishing, 2006. "Signed Copy" sticker on front cover, minor creasing to corners of cover, otherwise a good tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Tales from the criminal career of the Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris. Signed by Ferris and by Reg McKay on title page. 251pp, 8pp colour and b&w illustrations.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.