W W Norton & Co Inc, December 2001. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The case that shocked a nation the incredible book that tells what really happened. It began August 9 and 10, 1969, when seven people were shot, stabbed, and bludgeoned to death in Los Angeles. It ended when.....
Gallery Books, October 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta Child murderer. He has contronted, interviewed and researched dozens of serial killers and assassins -- including Charles Manson, Richard.....
Forge Books, May 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The instant #1 New York Times and USA Today best seller by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the hit podcast My Favorite Murder now available in paperback. Includes special bonus material! Sharing never-before-heard stories ranging from their struggles.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it--an urgent work of literary journalism. "I don't know a more complicated, original protagonist.....
Library of Congress, 1973. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 169 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in orange wrappers (paperback). 'I.1.4' mark in ink on upper front cover.
Back Bay Books, June 2020. Trade Paperback. One of the Best Books of the Year Time * NPR * Washington Post * Bloomberg News * Chicago Tribune * Chicago Public Library * Fortune * Los Angeles Times * E! News * The Telegraph * Apple * Library Journal In this.....
Simon & Schuster, April 2018. Trade Paperback. 2018 Edgar Award Finalist--Best Fact Crime "A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey" (The Boston Globe)--the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American.....
Charles C. Thomas, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining.
Harvard Univ Pr, September 1998. Trade Paperback. The 1925 Scopes Trial marked a watershed in our national relationship between science and religion and has had tremendous impact on our culture ever since, even inspiring the play and movie, both titled "Inherit the Wind." In addition to symbolizing the evolutionist versus.....
Random House, December 2004. Hardcover. Sister Helen Prejean was a little-known Roman Catholic nun from Louisiana when""in 1993, her first book "Dead Man Walking, "challenged the way we look at the death penalty in America. It became a #1" New York Times" bestseller and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.....
Charles C. Thomas, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. The latest methods for hiring police officers. Introduction by Earl Warren. First edition (first printing). Very good in a very good dust jacket. Previous owner's name.
Roxburghe Club, 1963. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 17 pages. 10-1/4 by 15-1/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Transcript of the proceedings in memory of the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. First edition (first printing). Sewn wrappers.....
Harper Perennial, February 2019. Trade Paperback. THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6-PART HBO(R) DOCUMENTARY SERIES #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post Maureen Corrigan, NPR Paste Seattle Times Entertainment Weekly Esquire Slate Buzzfeed Jezebel Philadelphia Inquirer Publishers Weekly Kirkus Reviews Library Journal Bustle Winner.....
Spiegel & Grau, August 2015. Trade Paperback. A new copy. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX - A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system.....
Sam Bass Cafe, [1929]. First Edition. Pamphlet. 11 pp. Adama Six Guns 164. 'Published by the proprietors of the cafe where Bass was killed.' First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in printed wrappers (paperback).
Oxford University Press, 2009. Hardcover. In an era that witnessed the rise of celebrity outlaws like Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger was the most famous and flamboyant of them all. Reports on the man and his misdeeds--spiced with accounts of his swashbuckling bravado.....
Simon & Schuster, 2009. Hardcover. Forget everything you think you know about Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Previous books and films, including the brilliant 1967 movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, have emphasized the supposed glamour of America's most notorious criminal couple, thus contributing to ongoing mythology. The real.....
W. W. Norton, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 266 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly.....
J. B. Lippincott, n.d. Hardcover. 181 pages. 5 B/W illustrations. Later printing. A very good copy in green cloth covers with black lettering on spine. Edge and corner wear. Spine ends rolled and beginning to fray. Former owner bookplate with date 1937 on front pastedown. In very good color illustrated.....
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, Inc., 1940-41. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Each issue about 20 pages. These stories of Pinkerton Detective Agency exploits were previoiusly published in True Detective Mysteries magazine. First edition (first printing). Near fine copies in wrappers (paperback).
Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 344 pages. The 1922 murder of Rev. Edward Hall, pastor of New Jersey church, and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a member of his choir, was an astonishing causes celebres. The trial, 4 years later, of Hall's wife and her two brothers, lasted 5 weeks.....
Blumberg & Co., printers, 1898. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 42 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic images of the author and of the church. Emmanuel Baptist Church was the scene of two brutal murders in 1895 for which William Durant was convicted and hanged. Durant maintained his innocence and Gibson was.....
Ward & lock, 1856. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 2 pamphlets: 136 pages plus 2 page folded extract from diary; 184. Frontispiece of William Palmer in first pamphlet; frontispiece in second pamphlet is folded view of the courtroom, image size 13 x 9.5 inches. First edition (first printing). Disbound copies but.....
The Los Angeles Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case, n.d. Trade Paperback. 48 pages. 12 x 9 inches. Tan illustrated paper wrappers. Covers are separated and torn at spine fold but present. Edge and corner wear. Scarce.
Hutchinson & Co., 1949. Hardcover. 181 pages. Later printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a creased snag to the front cover.