New York: Frederick A Stokes, 1929. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 284pp. ten "true" accounts of weird crimes investigated by the French Surete. Ashton-Wolfe was a notorious exaggerator, whose many books of his own investigations grew from actually existing criminals and crimes to the lurid inventions of other writers passed off.....
New York: Viking Press, 1961. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 212pp. from front flap: "In this cogent and disturbing new book Alan Barth examines the shortcuts often taken by "the authorities" to combat the admittedly grave increase in crime, and he shows how these remedies may be more dangerous than the.....
New York: Random House, 1965. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 343pp. stated first edition. #02961.
Reston, VA: Reston Publishing Company, 1977. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 257pp. from front flap: "...This book has been written specifically for the crime scene investigation (CSI) officer encompassing both law enforcement and the study of science necessary to conduct these investigations. Officers are continually required to update their knowledge of.....
St. Martins Press, 1971. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 164pp. Collection of letters associated with murder cases, with brief annotations by the author. from front flap: "Some of the cases in which letters played an important part are well known; others are remembered, if at all, only by a few students.....
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1964. hardcover. 8vo 253pp. from front flap: "In every generation there are a few markedly stirring books about the reclamation of human life, books that often become unpretentious but beloved classics. This is such a book, about and by Bill Hirsch, who has made a......
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1950. first thus. mass market paperback. 16mo 235pp. #02155.
New York: Doubleday, 2003. hardcover. 8vo 372pp. from front flap: "...At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by a pair of Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Beginning with.....
New York: Random House, 1950. hardcover. 8vo 337pp. from front flap: "This is a significant book--but don't run away! Its significance is simply that the world is full of fantastic people. Among them are the specimens you'll find here, some well-known, many obscure, collected and pinned down in printo to.....
New York: Viking Press, 1971. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 477pp. from front flap: "It was Bernard Cornfeld's declared amnbition to make Investors Overseas Services the most important economic force in the Free World," the authors of this amazing book begin. "The game was mutual funds." #01269.
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 241pp. from front flap: "Fiction based on fact, this is a most unconventional and intriguing book. It deals with the violent and mysterious death of a formidable New England lady which occurred almost fifty years ago in an isolated coastal village. Returning.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1935. hardcover. 8vo 318pp. from front flap: "The amazing autobiography of the "slickest crook on earth"--"Lord Jim" Manes, the man who engineered the million and a quarter dollar robbery of the Bank of Liverpool and lived a life of crime in Europe, the Orient and.....
Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1959. first. hardcover. from inside flap: "In Brotherhood of Evil the author begins with an account of the meeting of a grand council of the Mafia at Apalachin, New York, in November 1957, and the dilemma of Sgt. Edgar Croswell of the New York State Police.....
New York: Harper and Row, 1969. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 543pp. from front flap: "Was Richard II the hysteric that Shakespeare and tradition say he was? Was Stonehenge built for worship and sacrifice, or as an astronomical computer? Were Homer's descriptions of the seas and landfalls of Ulysses' journey wholly.....