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American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles

By: Keneally, Thomas

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday: 2002

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2281584

ISBN: 1740510836

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Jacket lightly rubbed. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 397 pp. By the author of Schindler's List. On the last Sunday of February 1859, Dan Sickles, a charming young congressman from New York, murdered his good friend Philip Barton Key (son of Francis Scott Key)–who was also his wife’s lover–in Washington’s Lafayette Square. The shooting took place directly across the street from the White House, the home of Sickles’s friend and protector, President James Buchanan. Sickles turned himself in; political friends in New York’s Tammany Ha...
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Dramatic Days at the Old Bailey

By: Kingston, Charles

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes: 1929

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2278732

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Lacks jacket, boards rubbed. 1929 Hard Cover. Examines many of the more controversial criminal cases that have come before the London High Court.
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A Cast of Killers: The Sensational True Story of Hollywood's Most Scandalous Murder--Covered Up for Sixty Years and Solved at Last by the Great Film Director King Vidor

By: Kirkpatrick, Sidney D.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: E.P. Dutton: 1986

Edition: 5th Printing

Seller ID: 2200953

ISBN: 0525243909

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

5th printing. A few smudges to page edges, pages faintly toned. Jacket toned, jacket spine edges bumped. 1986 Hard Cover. xi, 301 pp. On February 1, 1922, the distinguished silent-film director William Desmond Taylor was shot to death in his Los Angeles bungalow by an unknown assailant. Reports of strange activities at the scene of the crime circulated soon after. When the police arrived, was the head of Paramount Studios burning a bundle of papers in the fireplace, and was a well-known actress searching the house for letters she claimed were hers? Despite a full-scale investigation, the case ...
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Deadman's Hill: Was Hanratty Guilty?

By: Lord Russell of Liverpool

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Icon Books Limited: 1966

Seller ID: 2299125

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine lightly toned, wrappers lightly rubbed, owner's library stamp on front flyleaf. 1966 Trade Paperback. 190 pp. James Hanratty (4 October 1936 – 4 April 1962), also known as the A6 Murderer, was a British criminal who was one of the final eight people in the UK to be executed before capital punishment was effectively abolished.[1] He was hanged at Bedford Gaol on 4 April 1962, after being convicted of the murder of scientist Michael Gregsten, aged 36, who was shot dead in a car on the A6 at Deadman's Hill, near Clophill, Bedfordshire in August 1961. Gregsten's mistress, Valerie Storie, w...
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Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America

By: Lukas, J. Anthony

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2299550

ISBN: 0684808587

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Small spot on two prelim pages, top edge lightly foxed, jacket price clipped. 1997 Hard Cover. 875, [5] pp. 8vo. Recounts the trial of a radical union leader for the murder of Idaho's former state governor, a case that ultimately involved President Theodore Roosevelt and the tumultuous relationship between capital, labor, and the law in the 1900s.
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Dead Lucky: Lord Lucan - The Final Truth

By: Maclaughlin, Duncan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: John Blake: 2003

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2281001

ISBN: 1844540103

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket faintly rubbed. 2003 Hard Cover. They called it the manhunt of the century. Following a sensational murder in the heart of Belgravia that shocked high society and gripped the world, a new name was written into criminal folklore: Lord Lucan. In the 30 years since he vanished, numerous books and TV documentaries have theorized on his possible fate. Now former detective Duncan MacLaughlin—dubbed Scotland Yard's top undercover cop—has tracked down the incredible truth.
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The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot

By: Maeder, Thomas

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Book/Little, Brown and Company: 1980

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2203983

ISBN: 0316543667

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Board edges very faintly toned. Two closed-tears to jacket along spine, jacket edges rubbed. 1980 Hard Cover. xiv, 302 pp. Was he a sadistic mass killer who lured innocent people to their deaths, or a hero of German-occupied Paris who liquidated members of the Gestapo and helped persecuted Jews escape from tormented France? This was the question as one of the twentieth century's most sensational murder cases came to trial in Paris in 1946. Thomas Maeder meticulously reconstructs one of the most horrifying true stories in the annals of crime: the vile crimes themselves (presumabl...
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The Patty Hearst Story From Heiress to Revolutionary

By: Maguire, John G.; Dunn, Mary Lee

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Success Publishers: 1974

Seller ID: 2302789

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Ink mark on front wrapper, wrappers lightly rubbed. 1974 Stapled Binding. 96 pp. Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954)[citation needed] is an American author and actress, and a granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. She became internationally known for events following her 1974 kidnapping by the left-wing terrorist Symbionese Liberation Army. She was found 19 months after being abducted, by which time she was a fugitive wanted for serious crimes committed with members of the group. She was held in custody, and there was speculation before trial that h...
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Bookie: My Life in Disorganized Crime - The Real Story of Alfred Talcum

By: Mayer, Gary

Price: $25.00

Publisher: J.P. Tarcher, Inc./Hawthorn Books, Inc.: 1974

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2281633

ISBN: 0874770238

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Small chip to top edge of front jacket panel, two small tears to top edge of front jacket panel, jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1974 Hard Cover. 258 pp. At the tender age of nine, Alfred Talcum lost $2.75 when the Red Sox blew both ends of a doubleheader to the New York Yankees. Seven years later, Alfred won $160 in a poker game held in the third-floor boys' room in Commerce High School. Alfred celebrated his twenty-first birthday by losing nine races and $280 at Belmont Racetrack. Now, almost every day of his life, this same Alfred Talcum wins and loses thousands of dollars sit...
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The Red Barn Mystery: Some New Evidence on an Old Murder

By: McCormick, Donald

Price: $15.00

Publisher: John Long: 1967

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2297105

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped, jacket lightly rubbed and lightly toned. Pencil note on rear paste-down endpaper. 1967 Hard Cover. 206 pp. This is the first complete and accurate examination of one of England's classic murder cases, the famous 'Red Barn Mystery.' 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 se...
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One True Sentence: A Mystery

By: McDonald, Craig

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Minotaur Books: 2011

Seller ID: 2206015

ISBN: 1617930962

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Spine-base lightly bumped. 2011 Trade Paperback. viii, 324 pp. Paris, 1924: a city teeming with would-be poets, writers, painters and publishers... the Lost Generation. Hector Lassiter, fledgling author and best friend of Ernest Hemingway, is crossing the Pont Neuf when he hears a body fall into the icy Seine - the first in a string of brutal murders of literary magazine editors that throw a shroud over the City of Light. Frantic to stop the killings, the literati form their own improbable vigilante band: Gertrude Stein gathers the most prominent crime and mystery writers in the city, includin...
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Knots Untied: or, Ways and By-Ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives. A Narrative of Marvellous Experiences among All Classes of Society,--Criminals in High Life, Swindlers, Bank Robbers, Thieves, Lottery Agents, Gamblers, Necromancers, Counterfeiters, Burglars, Etc., Etc., Etc.

By: McWatters, George S.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hartford, J. B. Burr and Hyde: 1871

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304369

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Board edges rubbed, light frontispiece ghosting on title page, pencil name on second blank, two inch tear along top edge of rear free endpaper. 1871 Hard Cover. 665 pp. Illustrated. A Narrative of Marvellous Experiences among All Classes of Society,--Criminals in High Life, Swindlers, Bank Robbers, Thieves, Lottery Agents, Gamblers, Necromancers, Counterfeiters, Burglars, Etc., Etc., Etc.
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Criminal Responsibility

By: Mercier, Charles

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Brooklyn, New York, Physicians and Surgeons Book Comapny: 1929

Seller ID: 2304501

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Ink stamp on front paste-down endpaper. 1929 Hard Cover. 256 pp. Maroon cloth, gilt titles. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; Responsibility; Voluntary Action; Wrong-Doing; Insanity; Mind; Mind (Continued); Conditions of Responsibility; The Answers of the Judges; Procedure and Practice; Index.
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Find My Killer: Crime Stoppers - Unsolved Homicides

By: Millar, Cal

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Self-Published: 2009

Seller ID: 2302369

ISBN: 1448648769

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Faint edge wear. 2009 Trade Paperback. Highlighted in this book are more than 250 unsolved murder cases from across North America with rewards totalling some $5.5 million. Investigators are hoping people will have information that will help solve some of these cases which are on the files of police agencies and Crime Stoppers units in the United States and Canada. These victims and their families require justice and are hoping those who know who is responsible will come forward and identify the killers.
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Among the Missing: An Anecdotal History of Missing Persons from 1800 to the Present

By: Nash, Jay Robert

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1978

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2297097

ISBN: 0671240056

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light stain on spine base, top edge of jacket bumped. Ink stamp on front free endpaper. 1978 Large Hardcover. 445 pp. Black & white photographs throughout text. The story of hundreds of missing persons in the last two centuries, including Amelia Earhart, Judge Joseph Force Crater, Agatha Christie, Sherwood Anderson, Aimee Semple McPherson, Colonel Percy Fawcett, Richard Halliburton, George Leigh-Mallory, Dorothy Arnold, David Lang, Arthur Orton, and Roger Charles Tichborne.
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I'm Gonna Bury You!

By: Neill, Gene

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Glendale, The Voice of Triumph!: 1977

Edition: 3rd Printing

Seller ID: 2304364

ISBN: 0960802800

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

3rd printing. Pages faintly toned, edge wear. 1977 Mass Market Paperback. A fast moving, hard hitting, true-life story of a Miami Vice jet setter, fast lane, high roller organized crime lawyer, caught up in the exhilarating wealth and power of the international organized crime cartels.
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Within Prison Walls

By: Osborne, Thomas Mott; Osborne, Frederick R-L

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Spruce Gulch Press: 1991

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2288052

ISBN: 0962571431

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A nice copy. 1991 Trade Paperback. 229 pp. 1991 reissue of 1915 original. Being A Narrative Of Personal Experience During A Week Of Voluntary Confinement In The State Prison At Auburn, New York. With a new introduction by the author's grandson, Frederick R-L Osborne.
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The Winter Should Pass: A Novel

By: Patten, Nigel

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1967

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2200438

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('With the respects of the author, Nigel Patten, Villar [?] Juillet '67.'). 1967 Hard Cover. 255 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Issak flees his native Antwerp after committing a terrible crime. Settling in Snowdonia, he builds a home in the hills and founds a family with Rachel, a vagrant gypsy woman. But he remains haunted by his past with Julie, his one true love, and the conviction that his eldest son will in some way pay for his father's past sins. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born near London in 1940, Nigel Patten has lived permanently ...
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The Twin Hells: A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and Missouri Penitentiaries

By: Reynolds, John N.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Thompson & Thomas: 1900

Seller ID: 2294669

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Thompson & Thomas printing. No date, circa 1900. Ink doodles on rear free endpaper, pages lightly toned. 331 pp. The following pages treat of hell-A Kansas hell and a Missouri hell. Those who desire to peruse works that tell about Heaven only, are urged to drop this book and run. I was an inmate of the Kansas penitentiary for sixteen months, and make mention of what came under my own observation in connection with what I experienced. While an inmate of this prison I occupied cells at various times with convicts who had served terms in the Missouri prison. From these persons I gathered much us...
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The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border

By: Rodriguez, Teresa; Montane, Diana; Pulitzer, Lisa

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Atria Books: 2007

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2291937

ISBN: 0743292030

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Remainder mark on page base, a few light spots on cover spine. 2007 Hard Cover. 316 pp. For the last nine years, the city of Ciudad Juarez in northern Mexico has been the centre of an ongoing phenomenon of female homicides. As of February 2005 more than 370 bodies have been recovered, with over 400 women still missing, according to Amnesty International. The BBC News reported in November 2005 that 28 women had been murdered so far in 2005. As for who is behind the murders, the answer remains unknown. Despite numerous arrests over the last few years, the killings continue, leadin...
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The Doomsday Key: A Novel

By: Rollins, James

Price: $6.00

Publisher: William Morrow: 2009

Edition: 3rd Printing

Seller ID: 2293816

ISBN: 0061231401

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

3rd printing. Faint edge wear. 2009 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 430 pp. At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peter's Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. The three murders on three continents bear a horrifying connection: all the victims are marked by a Druidic pagan cross burned into their flesh. The bizarre murders thrust Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force into a race against time to solve a riddle going back centuries, to a ghastl...
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Infamous Manhattan: A Colorful Walking Tour of New York's Most Notorious Crime Sites

By: Roth, Andrew

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Citadel Press: 1996

Edition: 1st Printing

Seller ID: 2272375

ISBN: 0806517018

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Light edge wear. 1996 Trade Paperback. Mr. Roth is a compelling storyteller who dusts off the famous and forgotten news stories and brings them back to life. Mob assassinations, famous holdups, disasters, and much more!
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Trial of Deacon [William] Brodie (Notable British Trials Series)

By: Roughead, William

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell, Limited / William Hodge and Company: 1906

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2290612

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Spine slightly faded with minimal loss from head, front and end matter foxed. 1906 Hard Cover. 354 pp. 8vo. An account of the trial of Deacon William Brodie, a well-respected member of society by day, and the leader of a gang of burglars by night. Brodie’s last crime and ultimate downfall was an armed raid on His Majesty’s Excise Office in Chessel’s Court, on the Canongate. Although Brodie had planned the burglary himself, things went disastrously wrong. Ainslie and Brown were caught and turned King’s Evidence on the rest of the gang. Brodie escaped to the Netherlands, b...
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Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer

By: Rule, Ann

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Free Press: 2004

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2296414

ISBN: 0743238516

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Pages very faintly toned. 2004 Hard Cover. ix, 436 pp. Traces the serial murders of the notorious Green River Killer, profiling Gary Ridgway as a happily married man who worked for the same company for thirty years, the case's approximate 40,000 suspects, the killer's disturbing capacity for luring and hiding his victims, and the DNA breakthroughs that established his link to the killings.
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Scandalmonger

By: Safire, William

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2000

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304940

ISBN: 0684867192

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 496 pp. A novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Freedom. A presidential hopeful has taken a beautiful, vulnerable woman as his mistress, though both are married to others. His rival for the presidency of the United States has even more sensational secrets to guard about his own past. An ambitious journalist unearths the stories of the private lives of both, and he hefts in his hand what he calls the hammer of truth. The time is the end of the eighteenth century. The political figures whos...
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Nevermore: A Novel

By: Schechter, Harold

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Pocket Books: 1999

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2302804

ISBN: 0671798553

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Faint edge wear. 1999 Hard Cover. Historical fact and startling literary invention converge in this stunning novel by 'America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers' (The Boston Book Review). Praised by Caleb Carr for his 'brilliantly detailed and above all riveting' true-crime writing, Harold Schechter brings his expertise to a marvelous work of fiction in the tradition of Carr's own The Alienist. Superbly rendering the 1830s Baltimore of Edgar Allan Poe, Schechter taps into the dark genius of that legendary author -- and follows a labyrinthine path into t...
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The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

By: Sugden, Philip

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Carroll & Graf: 1995

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 2304294

ISBN: 0786702761

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Revised edition. Remainder mark, pages toned, light edge wear. 1995 Trade Paperback. Based on exhaustive research by a trained historian, the definitive work on the Ripper murders includes much new material, the discovery of a possible new victim, details of victims' lives, and exoneration of several traditional suspects.
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Ya-Yas in Bloom: A Novel

By: Wells, Rebecca

Price: $10.00

Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers: 2005

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2201021

ISBN: 0060195347

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A few faint smudges to page ridges. Jacket lightly toned. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 258 pp. For readers everywhere who are ga-ga for the Ya-Yas and clamoring for more and for those who are lucky enough to be discovering the Ya-Yas for the first time, comes a new book about the incomparable Sisterhood, bursting with life and funnier than ever.... An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' award-winning bestseller Little Altars Everywhere and #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, YA-YAS IN BLOOM revea...
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Forty Years of Scotland Yard: The Record of a Lifetime's Service in the Criminal Investigation Department

By: Wensley, Frederick Porter; Dilnot, George (Introduction)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.: 1931

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2291949

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

No jacket. Minor loss to spine head, spine rear, and bottom corner of rear board. Edges rubbed, two one-inch by one-inch surface tears on front free endpaper. 1931 Hard Cover. xvii, 312 pp. I tell in this book of some of the experiences of forty years. Since I have kept no diaries, and consulted no records save those accessible to the general public, these memories and reflections must be regarded as a personal narrative. There are limits of discretion and taste beyond which it is neither necessary nor desirable to step. I am acutely conscious, also, that I have omitted the names of many of th...
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The Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann: Edited with a History of the Case [Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping]

By: Whipple, Sidney B.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1937

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2123456

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Hinges starting, split down fold of front jacket flap, jacket spine faded Good. 1937 Hard Cover. vii, 565 pp. 8vo. An account of the trial of the man accused of kidnapping the baby of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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