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Omaha, Nebraska: Addicus Books, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Slight wear to front corners, else Fine. Bright, clean, unmarked wraps, tight and solid glued binding, square, internals in Fine condition. In May of 1946, six desperate inmates attempted to escape from Alcatraz--the result was one of the bloodiest uprisings in the history of American prisons. The U.S. Marines, five Coast Guard ships and a Navy destroyer were involved in quelling this uprising. Ernest Lageson, Jr. brings us this insider's account of both the notorious riot and life inside the most infamous prison in American history. Ernest Lageson, Jr. was the son of one of the guards shot; he was a teenager at the time of the riot and remembers waiting with other hostage families, waiting to hear if their loved ones were alive. 279 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 1999, Addicus Books, Omaha, Nebraska.

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. A Smithsonian curator and top FBI consultant shows how archaeological discoveries help solve twentieth century crimes and how modern criminology has helped unveil the secrets of the ancients. "Bones" takes the reader into the high tech labs of the FBI and into courtrooms where a forensic expert's testimony can mean the difference between a conviction and a miscarriage of justice. Very clean, tight & solid volume in grey and yellow binding, square with sharp corners, internals as new. Scrape on front endpaper, otherwise book is as new. Black, glossy clean jacket. Illustrated with more than 75 photos. 317 pages with index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1992, HarperCollins, New York, New York, USA

USA: Castle Books, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. Fine black cloth binding with silver titles to spine, clean and unmarked, lower corners lightly rubbed, tight & solid sewn binding. Pages edges clean and white. Rear hinge intact and tight but doesn't lay down completely flat. Internals as new. Black glossy jacket with illustration - Top: Jacques-Louis David. "The Death of Marat (1793); unclipped; trace wear to extremities. The life stories of assassins throughout history: the infamous and the overlooked, the madmen and the zealots, the incompetent and the ruthlessly efficient., those who failed and those who succeeded. 391 pages with index. Castle Books, USA, 2006.

Nashville, TN 1988: Word Publishing, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. This is the true story of the woman who exposed her father as a Soviet spy. He was a former U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer convicted of spying for the Soviet Union from 1968-1985. And it is the story of a family he abandoned for his own pursuits. This is Laura Walker's story, the story of abused, misguided children. And it is the story of a despairing mother. Laura's book is a mixture of tragedy, victory, sorrow, humor, suspense, revelation. betrayal, forgiveness, and restoration. Spotless, bright red-orange patterned cloth binding, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Internals as new. Gold/orange/black dust jacket is bright and clean, no wear to edges. 239 pages. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Word Publishing, Nashville, TN 1988.

U.S.A: Broadway Books, 2012. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good+ Condition. The true story of a truly evil man, Dr. Marcel Petiot, who committed the most horrendous crimes in Paris --while being a charming and handsome physician during the day. Clean and unmarked, beginning of a crease to the lower corner with ruffling of the tip to that corner.Tight and square glued binding. Text block edges clean. Eight pages of illustrative plates with photographs of some scenes and places of the crimes. Pages very clean and free from any markings, slightly toned. 416 pages with Bibliography, Notes, and Index. 1.1 x 5.1 x 8 inches. Broadway Books, New York, 2012.

Munchen, Germany: Piper Verlag, 2003. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Great true crime cases in Germany. Orange and black wrappers are clean and unmarked, lower front corner and nearby edge are worn, upper corner has slight wear, slight wrinkle to lower edge of some few pages; tight and solid glued binding. Black-and-white in-text illustrations. Pages quite clean, no markings of any kind. 307 pp. 4,75 x 7.5 inches. 2003, Piper Verlag, Munchen, Germany

U.S.A: Wm Morrow, 1989. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Very Good Condition. Jacket in Fair Condition. Year after year, one after another, the babies of Marybeth Tinning died, nine of them over the past fourteen years. Why did nobody notice? Not the neighbors, not the doctors, not the coroner, not the social workers, not even Mr. Tinning. A story too terrible to be true, but it is. Book is clean with tight, solid binding. There is a greyish strip on the lower edges of the front and back board and a small grayish spot above that line on the front, slight rubbing of some edges. Interior is very clean and unmarked. Jacket is clean with edgewear. little chips at corners, spine head scruffy with a small tear, spine tail with two small closed tears. 363 with index. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Wm Morrow Publisher, New York, 1989.

New York, New York, USA: St Martins Press, 1986. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing of First US Edition. Hardcover Book in VG Condition with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Mylar jacket cover. Black full cloth with red titles, very clean and unmarked; very small scuff on hinge, center; tight, solid and square. Text block edges lightly soiled. Pages clean, no marks or tears. 307 pages. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 1986, St Martins Press, New York, New York, USA

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Simon & Schuster, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover Book & Jacket in Very Good Condition. Sixteen pages of b/w illustration plates. Binding of gold half-cloth w/gilt titles, black paper-wrapped boards, rubbed on edges and corners, a small smudge on the top edge and a tiny red mark on the lower edge; fore edge with three faint smudges. Tight and solid. Interior clean & unmarked. Clean & bright black jacket with silver and white print; shelf rubbing; light wear to extremities. 493 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1991.

U.S.A: Simon & Schuster, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. The true story of the 1985 murder in eastern Pennsylvania of a wife and new mother, Teresa Benigno Taylor. Bound in black half cloth with silver titles, with gray paper-wrapped boards, clean, square with sharp corners, tight & solid volume. Gray boards have a faint reddish dot a millimeter in size and two specks. Otherwise in Fine Condition. Glossy, clean, bright jacket is not clipped. 378 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Simon & Schuster, NY 1990.

U.S.A: Prima Publishing, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked, spine head and heel slightly compressed, no edge wear. Rem Mark. Tight and solid binding. Former owner bookplate on front endpaper. Internals quite clean and free from any markings, no creasing. 341 pages. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Prima Publishing, USA 1992.

Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company, 2018. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company, Second Printing of First North American Edition, 2018. First published in the Netherlands. 2016. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Minimal library markings. Otherwise binding and jacket in very good condition. Internals as new. The story of the undoing of one of the world's most notorious criminals, brought to justice by his sister, after years of living in terror of him. And a riveting account of the world of the Dutch underground. 399 pages. 8vo. 2018, Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company. ISBN10: 0316475300, ISBN13: 9780316475303

USA: Pantheon Books, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Pantheon Books, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Fine binding of brown half cloth with blue titles, brown boards, very clean and unmarked, tight, solid and square volume. Internals as new also. In 1869 America was recovering from the devastation of the Civil War but all across the country the newspapers and readers were engrossed in a love story and its tragic outcome in New York City. Abby Sage, a beautiful actress, finally escaped from an abusive marriage when her jealous ex-husband murdered her alleged lover, Civil War journalist Albert Deane Richardson, in the lobby of the New York Tribune. America was captivated by the trial and ensuing debate about the sanctity of marriage and the rights of women, such as they were in 1869. 272 pages. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 1994, Pantheon Books, New York, New York, USA

Germany: Weltbild Verlag, 2004. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Red and black wrappers are clean and unmarked, crease to lower front corner, slight wear to upper edge, tight & solid glued binding, Pages clean, no markings of any kind. B/w photographs, reproductions of newspaper articles and documents. 286 pages. 5.25 x 8.5 inches. 2004, Weltbild Verlag, Germany.

Atheneum, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Atheneum, 1983, Third Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Illustrations. Numerous newspaper articles about these horrific crime laid in. Signed Photograph of Shelly Monahan, one of the victims. Navy cloth backed spine with silver titles, black cloth boards, very clean. whisper of wear to corners. Hinge cracked in about the center of the book in the photograph section. , tight and solid with endbands. Internals in Fine Condition. The crimes of Fred and Ruth Coe: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge and Family Tragedy in Spokane Washington., 1980s. For months, the story of a mother, a son and a city, were enmeshed in a tragedy that made headlines across the nation--1981 arrest; Feb 1985 found guilty. 519 pages. 8vo. 1983, Atheneum.

Belmont, MA: Western Islands, 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. Standard used condition, clean with light wear. Pages clean, lightly toned. Tight glued binding. Were they guilty? Did they get a fair trial? Did Massacusetts execute two innocent men? This is a continuing belief that Sacco and Vanzetti were innnocent and were executed for their radical opinions. This was the cause celebre on the 1920s, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, for extremists a judicial murder engineered by a decadent ruling class; or an opinion that acquits the ruling class of murder but finds in Massacusetts of the 1920s a hatred of aliens, a fear of radicalism that made a fair trial impossible; or there is Mt. Justice Holmes opinion-he interpreted the case as an ordinary murder made into a text by the reds. So this books attempts to fine the truth. 321 pages with index. 7 x 4.25 inches. Western islands, Belmont, MA 1965.

U.S.A: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Jack Olsen describes how a family survives trauma and violence over four decades. This is the true story of a courageous woman who survived a hellish twentieth century nightmare. Black cloth binding with silver titles, very clean and unmarked, with light rubbing to spine heel and lower edge. Binding tight and solid. Internals very clean, no markings. 376 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1996, St. Martin's Press, New York USA

USA: Warner Books, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Third Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. The architect of the defense strategy for the O J Simpson trial tells the inside story of the trial from beginning to end. Bound in black half cloth with silver titles, gray boards, very clean and unmarked, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Former owner name on endpaper. Light bluish square on paste-down corner where sticker was removed. Internals spotless, no markings of any kind, no creases. Black, glossy, clean dust jacket, unclipped, with red and white titles, slight wear to some edges. 363 pages. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Warner Books, USA 1996.

New York, New York USA: Putnam Pub Group, 2005. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book Club Edition in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Clean, unmarked, tight & solid book with clean jacket that is shelf-rubbed. James Star s provides a look inside the world of forensic science by taking the reader behind the scenes and on the sites of several exhumations. He intends to set the record straight on the coldest of cold cases. to right the wrongs done by tall tales, cover-ups, and cherished historical legends. Some of the cases he deals with are: Alfred Packer, a 19th century Colorado prospector accused of cannabalism; Mary Sullivan, supposedly a victim of Albert DeSalvo, who may or may not have been the Boston Stangler; Frank Olson, a Cold War government scientist who may not have just 'fallen' from a high floor of a New York hotel; and others. 284 pages with bibligraphy and index. 5.75 x 8.6 inches.… Read More

U.S.A: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Paperback in Good Condition. Clean and unmarked red and white wrappers, trace wear to edges, light spine creases. Sound and tight binding, slight lean to spine. This is the story of Susan Wright and a marriage that ended in murder, with a trial in Houston to determine if she was a victim defending herself and her husband guilty of harrowing abuse, or--? 244 pages. 6.75 x 4.25 inches. St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York, 2005.