Search Results: True Crime from The Brooklyn Bookman

BLAKE, Heidi: From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West. New York, Mulholland Books, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 324 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Russia-International Affairs / True Crime. Book and jacket condition: Fine. A gently-used copy with a jacket in first-rate condition with clean pages. Illustrated throughout with pertinent photos of the principle actors. A superb nonfiction thriller detailing the Putin regime's war on its enemies and dissidents at home and abroad. ISBN: 9780316417235

GRISHAM, John: The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town. New York, Bantam Dell, 2007. Delta Trade Paperback Edition: December, 2007. 385 pp. Subject: Non-Fiction / True Crime. Condition: Good. Corners of front cover bumped. Half-title page torn out (the one preceding actual title page). Light edge-wear adjacent to the spine and a crease along the spine itself. Tiny scuff on the reverse cover – roughly mid-way near the fore-edge of back cover. Otherwise copy is in decent shape. The true-life account of Ron Williamson, falsely accused of a heinous murder he did not commit, and his eventual acquittal told by America's master of the legal thriller genre. Highly recommended. ISBN: 9780385340915

LANE, David: Into The Heart of the Mafia: A Journey Through the Italian South. London, Profile Books, 2010. First Paperback Edition. Softcover, 261 pp. Subject: Nonfiction/Italy-History & Travel/Italy-True Crime/Organized Crime. Condition: Very Good Plus. Book's appearance is in near-fine condition with all pages clean and unmarked. Penetrating analysis of one of Italy's most notorious criminal organizations. Recommended to those most interested in the history of organized crime. ISBN: 9781846681356

BALL, Edward: The Inventor And The Tycoon: The Murderer Eadweard Muybridge, The Entrepreneur Leland Stanford, And The Birth of Moving Pictures. New York, Anchor Books, 2013. First Anchor Books Edition, November 2013 (paperback). Softcover, 447 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History / True Crime. Condition: Very Good Plus. Tiny nick at the lower extremity of the lower left hand corner on the reverse cover. Otherwise a nice copy interspersed with black and white photography. All pages clean and unmarked. Sensational account of one of the most notorious murder trials of 19th century America – and of the unlikely origins of cinematography by a gifted, yet troubled pioneering photographer and of his patron Leland Stanford, the railroad tycoon and founder of Stanford University. An exciting work of true crime and history! ISBN: 9780767929400