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By: Esslinger, Michael; Coon, Darwin E.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Ocean View Publishing: 2012
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2281449
ISBN: 0970461402
Condition: Near Fine
Revised edition. Stain on top page ridge. 2012 Large Softcover. xii, 451 pp. Introduction by former inmate Darwin E. Coon. Alcatraz - A Definitive History of the Penitentiary Years is a comprehensive reference with hundreds of pages of historic photographs, documents, and information that breaks away from traditional tourist style books. This book is the result of years of intensive research, and navigates the Island's history through rarely seen documents, interviews, and historic photographs. Historian Michael Esslinger thoroughly details the prominent events, inmates, and life inside the mo... View more info
By: Evans, Stewart P.; Rumbelow, Donald
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The History Press: 2010
Seller ID: 2285034
ISBN: 0750942290
Condition: Near Fine
Pages very faintly toned. 2010 Large Softcover. x, 305 pp. Drawing on their unparallel knowledge of the Jack the Ripper murders and their professional experience as police officers, the two doyens of serious Ripper writing join forces for the first time to write the definitive book on the case from the perspective of the police investigation. As the title declares, this is the complete investigation and is full of new insights and information on the murders and who might have committed them. The authors reopen every aspect of the case and offer a balanced account that does not favor any one su... View more info
By: Evans, Stewart P.; Skinner, Keith
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2285393
ISBN: 0786707682
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 2000 Hard Cover. xii, 692 pp. Includes all of Scotland Yard's reports, witness statements, lost files, extensive press accounts, and rare photographs. A reference to one of the great unsolved murder sprees in history examines the events in London in the 1880s when a string of prostitute murders paralyzed the country and shocked the world. View more info
By: Falco, Charles; Droban, Kerrie
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books: 2013
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2261005
ISBN: 125004846X
Condition: Near Fine
Spine head very lightly bumped. 2013 Trade Paperback. ix, 253 pp. The basis for the hit TV series Gangland Undercover! The gripping account from an ex-con who went undercover to help the ATF infiltrate three of America's most violent biker gangs. Despite lacking any experience with motorcycle gangs, Charles Falco infiltrated three of America's deadliest biker gangs: the Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws. In separate investigations that spanned years and coasts, Falco risked his life, suffering a fractured neck and a severely torn shoulder, working deep under cover to bring violent sociopaths to just... View more info
By: Farson, Daniel
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Michael Joseph: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2296792
ISBN: 0718110501
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Minor general wear to jacket. Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1972 Hard Cover. 143 pp. Somewhat outdated, but still looked upon as one of the founding texts on the case. Farson was among the first to originally posit the Montague John Druitt theory. View more info
By: Feldman, Paul H.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Virgin: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2285028
ISBN: 1852276770
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Bottom edge of front jacket panel lightly bumped. 1998 Hard Cover. xiv, 385 pp. Since October 1992 the Diary of Jack the Ripper, which purported to be written by James Maybrick, was believed to have been a hoax. However, not one person has attempted to explain how it was forged or by whom. This book claims that this is because the diary is genuine. Feldman suggests that James Maybrick was the notorious Whitechapel Murderer, and that the largest and most detailed investigation on the subject ever to be undertaken led the author through the smokescreen of an official cover-up, via... View more info
By: Fido, Martin
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books: 1993
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2284747
ISBN: 1566195373
Condition: Very Good
Page ridges faintly foxed. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 239 pp. This book re-examines all the sensational details of the murders ascribed to Jack the Ripper. It investigates the roles and reliability of the policemen involved in the murder inquiry and analyzes the evidence against all the suspects--checking them against the personality patterns of other sexual serial murderers. The author, whose conclusion was endorsed by the Scotland Yard & the F.B.I., provides a convincing identification of the Ripper. View more info
By: Foot, Paul
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 1988
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2285120
ISBN: 0140109544
Condition: Very Good
First printing. Minor crease to rear wrapper, pages faintly toned. 1988 Trade Paperback. 443 pp. Reexamines the A6 murder and the trial of James Hanratty, revealing negligence, obstinacy and ineptitude among the highest powers of the land. View more info
By: Fox, Margalit
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Random House: 2018
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2299077
ISBN: 0399589457
Condition: Fine
First edition. A fine copy. 2018 Hard Cover. xxvii, 319 pp. After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater, an immigrant Jewish cardsharp. Though he was known to be innocent, Slater was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor. Outraged by this injustice, Arthur Conan Doyle, already world renowned as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, used the methods of his most famous character to reinvestigate the case, ultimately winning Slater’s freedom. With “an eye for the telling detail, a forensic sense of ev... View more info
By: Graham, Anne E.; Emmas, Carol; Skinner, Keith
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Headline: 1999
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2284771
ISBN: 0747262063
Condition: Near Fine
Sticker on rear wrapper, pages very faintly toned. 1999 Mass Market Paperback. xxii, 327 pp. August, 1889. Twenty-seven-year-old Florence Maybrick is sentenced to death for poisoning her husband, Liverpool cotton broker James Maybrick, in one of the most infamous trials in British legal history. But what was the truth behind Maybrick¹s death? And how was it connected to a spate of terrible murders in London¹s East End? Florence¹s turbulent life ? her marriage to a man widely believed to be the most notorious serial killer of all time, her sensational trial and imprisonment ? is the stuff of... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Berkley Books: 1987
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2285475
ISBN: 0425098087
Condition: Good
Spine and wrappers creased, minor tear along top edge of front wrapper, page ridges faintly foxed. 1987 Mass Market Paperback. 337 pp. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer took pleasure in torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead in a lovers’ lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill more. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed thirty-seven dead. The real toll may have reached fifty. Robert Graysmith was on staff at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 when Zodiac first struck, tri... View more info
By: Haining, Peter
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Images Publication: 1992
Seller ID: 2285109
ISBN: 0948134313
Condition: Near Fine
Owner stamp on first few pages. 1992 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 144 pp. The Red Barn Murder was a notorious murder committed in Polstead, Suffolk, England in 1827. A young woman, Maria Marten, was shot dead by her lover William Corder. The two had arranged to meet at the Red Barn, a local landmark, before eloping to Ipswich. Maria was never seen alive again and Corder fled the scene. He sent letters to Marten's family claiming that she was in good health, but her body was later discovered buried in the barn after her stepmother spoke of having dreamed about ... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Hamer: 1937
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2051450
Condition: Good
Front hinge just starting, page ridges foxed. 1937 Hard Cover. 361, [1] pp. An examination of the handwriting on the kidnapping note of the Lindbergh kidnapping. View more info
By: Harris, Melvin
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Limited: 1994
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2284769
ISBN: 1854797263
Condition: Very Good
First printing. Sticker on rear wrapper, pages faintly toned. 1994 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 216 pp. Melvin Harris, one of the world's top experts on Jack the Ripper, was instrumental in exposing the so-called 'Ripper Diaries.' Drawing on newly uncovered material on the man and the murders and using modern FBI methods of tracing serial killers Harris builds a totally convincing case against the man he names as the true Ripper; a man who was interviewed by police at the time and had inside information on the killings. the book also includes for the fir... View more info
By: Harris, Melvin
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Columbus Books: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2287721
ISBN: 0862873282
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Jacket rubbed. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. When the gruesome diaries of James Maybrick were unearthed 10 years ago, the last piece of a century-old puzzle was in place. The discovery offered the strongest evidence yet as to the true identity of Jack the Ripper. It suggests that Maybrick, a Liverpool merchant who, furious with his American wife’s infidelity, went periodically to London to butcher prostitutes who walked the streets close to where he had first seen his wife with her lover. Now, Shirley Harrison presents startling new evidence th... View more info
By: Harris, Melvin
Price: $7.00
Publisher: W.H. Allen: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2287723
ISBN: 1852271019
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Ink inscription. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. A work on Jack The Ripper focusing on contemporary media accounts of the killings. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company: 1949
Seller ID: 2277828
Condition: Very Good
No jacket. Edges and gilt on spine lightly rubbed, a few light stains to a few pages. 1949 Hard Cover. xi, 269 pp. An authentic, intramural and operational presentation of the Yard which records the patience, perseverance of its men, the coordination of the divisions. From the files, a sequence of cases and their completion provides a working knowledge of the C.I.D. as they track down murderers, blackmailers, drug dealers, anarchists, spies, etc. and the special branches (The Flying Squad, Railway Police, Port of London Authority) as well as the departmental divisions (Medical Service; Laborat... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Blake: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2285386
ISBN: 185782590X
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Faint smudge on page ridge. 2003 Hard Cover. Include the diaries of James Maybrick. When the gruesome diaries of James Maybrick were unearthed 10 years ago, the last piece of a century-old puzzle was in place. The discovery offered the strongest evidence yet as to the true identity of Jack the Ripper. It suggests that Maybrick, a Liverpool merchant who, furious with his American wife’s infidelity, went periodically to London to butcher prostitutes who walked the streets close to where he had first seen his wife with her lover. Now, Shirley Harrison presents startling new evide... View more info
By: Harry, Gerard
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1928
Seller ID: 2278336
Condition: Very Good
No jacket, minor general wear. 1928 Hard Cover. vii, 243 pp. Except, perhaps, for the more recent Dreyfus affair, no criminal case of the nineteenth century has so profoundly stirred society as that revealed at the Court of assizes in Brabant, on the 22nd of December, 1882, where sentence of death was passed on the brothers Armand and Leon Peltzer for the willful murder of Guilliaume Bernays. View more info
By: Hart, Carolyn G.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Bantam: 1991
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2291353
ISBN: 0553074040
Condition: Very Good
2nd printing. Jacket spine faded. 1991 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. A group of Christie buffs. . .In honor of Agatha Christie's one hundredth birthday, mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance Darling plans a week-long celebration of mystery, treasure hunts, title clues, and Christie trivia. Yet even as the champagne is chilling and the happy guests begin arriving on Broward's Rock Island, Annie feels a niggling sense of doom. But the last thing she or her guests expect is that the scheduled fun and mayhem will include a real-life murder. The unexpected arrival ... View more info
By: Hartman, Mary S.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Robson Books: 1985
Seller ID: 2285583
ISBN: 0860513432
Condition: Near Fine
Sticker on rear wrapper. 1985 Trade Paperback. x, 318 pp. The image of Victorian womanhood -- that of respectable, middle-class mother and wife -- will be shattered far all who read Mary Hartman's fascinating and often shocking account of the lives of thirteen French and English women accused of murder. Her carefully researched and vividly dramatic investigation of why these thirteen women took such direct and desperate action gives a unique view of life behind the closed curtains of Victorian drawingroom society. View more info
By: Hendryx, Louise
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Louise Hendryx: 1990
Edition: Signed Copy
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2298315
Condition: Good
Signed by author with inscription, To Helen Pentacost--A friend at church and club. Stain along edge. 1990 Trade Paperback. 292 pp. Ever since I was a child I have heard friends and relatives discuss the Henry Hendryx murder case. He was a distant cousin so I was interested. The more I heard and the more I read, the more interested I became. I could not come to a conclusion about the case, nor has anyone been able to solve it for certain. The people in Cuba and in the area have always been divided in their opinions. Finally, after all these years, I decided to write in book form all the inform... View more info
By: Herbert, Brian; Anderson, Kevin J.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Bantam Books: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2298257
ISBN: 0553110845
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 496, [4] pp. 8vo. Maps on endpapers. The triumphant conclusion to the blockbuster trilogy that made science fiction history! In Dune: House Corrino Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring us the magnificent final chapter in the unforgettable saga begun in Dune: House Atreides and continued in Dune: House Harkonnen. Here nobles and commoners, soldiers and slaves, wives and courtesans shape the amazing destiny of a tumultuous universe. An epic saga of love and war, crime and politics, religion and revolution, this ma... View more info
By: Herbert, Brian; Anderson, Kevin J.s
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Bantam Books: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2276337
ISBN: 0553110845
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. A couple tiny spots on page ridge. 2001 Hard Cover. 496, [4] pp. 8vo. Maps on endpapers. The triumphant conclusion to the blockbuster trilogy that made science fiction history! In Dune: House Corrino Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring us the magnificent final chapter in the unforgettable saga begun in Dune: House Atreides and continued in Dune: House Harkonnen. Here nobles and commoners, soldiers and slaves, wives and courtesans shape the amazing destiny of a tumultuous universe. An epic saga of love and war, crime and politics, religion and revolution, this magnificent n... View more info
By: Herman, Sarah
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Metro Books: 2018
Seller ID: 2279284
ISBN: 1435166612
Condition: Near Fine
An exceptional copy. 2018 Trade Paperback. A compendium of crimes left unpunished, from gruesome violence to high-profile theft. View more info
By: Howells, Martin; Skinner, Keith
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson: 1987
Seller ID: 2285395
ISBN: 0283993774
Condition: Very Good
Top edge of jacket bumped, jacket flaps lightly toned. Top page ridge faintly foxed, a few light smudges on page ridges. 1987 Hard Cover. xiii, 208 pp. The gruesome series of five unsolved murders of prostitutes in Whitechapel, London during the autumn of 1888, has always haunted the public's imagination. There have been many attempts to identify the murder, but until now none has been entirely credible. The achievement of Martin Howells and Keith Skinner lies in the integrity and tenacity of their investigates. They invite us to share the frustrations and the triumphs of their five years' que... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Amberley: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2285048
ISBN: 1848687842
Condition: Fine
First edition - a paperback original. A fine copy. 2009 Trade Paperback. 95 pp. Ripper Murders From Old Photographs is not a standard retelling of the story of the Whitechapel Murders but the tale of historically important photographs connected to the case, discovered by the author in 2007. Half of the book deals with The Whitby Collection. This is a surviving series of 27 images taken by the amateur criminologist John Gordon Whitby in 1961. They show many of the murder locations and related streets as they looked at that time. The book will not only tell the known facts about the photographer... View more info
By: Irving, H. B.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: George H. Doran: 1918
Seller ID: 2297120
Condition: Good
No jacket. Light stains, loss to spine head, front hinge starting. 1918 Hard Cover. viii, 315 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Life of Charles Peace: His Early Years - Peace in London - His Trial and Execution; The Career of Robert Butler: The Dunedin Murders - The Trial of Butler - His Decline and Fall; M. Derues: The Climbing Little Grocer - The Game of Bluff; Dr. Castaing: An Unhappy Coincidence - The Trial of Dr. Castaing; Professor Webster; The Mysterious Mr. Holmes: Honour Amgonst Thieves - The Wandering Assassin; Partnership in Crime: The Widow Gras: The Charmer - The Wounded Pigeon; Vit... View more info
By: Irving, H.B.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: William Hodge & Company, Ltd.: 1922
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2290596
Condition: Near Fine
Second edition. Ink owner stamp on front and rear endpaper. 1922 Hard Cover. 354 pp. 8vo. An account of the trial of Florence Maybrick, who was convicted of murder after poisoning her husband with arsenic. Bruce Robinson recently released a book entitled They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper, in which he argues that the victim's brother was Jack the Ripper. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Castle Books: 2009
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2295685
ISBN: 078581616X
Condition: Very Good
Book club edition. Faint edge wear. 2009 Hard Cover. A collection of sixteen essays on the true identity of Jack the Ripper. View more info
