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THE STRANGLER!, The Story of Terror in Boston

By: Banks, Harold K.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Avon V2173: 1967

Seller ID: 017061

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good to Very Good

This one began as a series of newspaper articles concerned with establishing by due process of law whether a man being kept in protective custody by the state was the serial killer he claimed to be. The publisher called this one "The true crime story of the century," and for the victims and their families, no doubt it was, but there were still more than thirty years go go in that particular century, and up to that point, no one had heard of a nasty little weasel named Manson. 238 pages, cover photograph by Paul Weller. Some slant/roll, edge and corner wear, handling wear.
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Dillinger

By: Cooper, Saul

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Hillman 133: 1959

Seller ID: 011626

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

144 pages. A sensationalist view of the notorious criminal's life and loves. Slant, tanned pages.
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Dillinger

By: Cooper, Saul

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Hillman 133: 1960

Seller ID: bio.00029

Binding: Paperback

Condition: About Very Good

sensationalist view of the notorious criminal's life and loves; just a bit of slant, light edgewear, light chipping to spine ends, thin crease top right edge of front cover and top left edge of rear, light rubbing;
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DESCENT INTO MADNESS, The Diary of a Killer (signed)

By: Frolick, Vernon

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Surrey & Blaine, Hancock House: 1993

Seller ID: 018566

ISBN: 0888393008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Frolick tells the story of Michael Oros, who, after being questioned about the murder of Gunter Lishy, a German trapper in northern British Columbia, disappeared into the wilds, where he lived alone, convinced that government agents were tracking and trying to kill him. When he seemed involved in the break-in of a cabin, members of the RCMP agents were sent to bring him in for questioning. He killed one officer before being shot, himself. Frolick presents the story from the killer's own diaries, which detail his 13-year descent into madness. Inscription reads, "To Agatha and Jan./Kindest p...
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Famous Trials 7, Oscar Wilde

By: Hyde, H. Montgomery

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Penguin 1857: 1962

Seller ID: 006209

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

The story of Wilde's conviction on charges of gross indecency with male persons. Cover illustration by Toulouse-Lautrec. Some spine roll, nicks to spine ends, moderate handling wear, tanning. Internally tight and clean.
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The Miramichi Axe Murder

By: Mitchell, Sandra

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Halifax, Nimbus Publishing Company 011: 1992

Seller ID: 018281

ISBN: 1-55109-011-2

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Mitchell maintains that Robbie Cunningham is innocent of the 1979 murder of Nicholas Duguay in the small community of Chatham Head, New Brunswick, and offers the view that convicted serial killer Alan Legere is responsible. 218 pages (including appendices), illustrated w/photographs and two maps. Light rubbing, light edgewear, mild handling wear. Internally tight and clean.
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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CLEVELAND MAFIA, Corn Sugar and Blood

By: Porrello, Rick

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Barricade Books: 1995

Seller ID: 017051

ISBN: 1-56980-058-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The story of the third-ranked Mafia organization in America, and "the Sugar War, a Prohibition-era series of conflicts over control of corn sugar, a primary ingredient in hooch, bootleg booze." Also "offers the first detailed look at the life of Angelo 'Big Ange' Lonardo," who became the Cleveland Mafia's boss. Black boards w/black cloth backstrip w/silver spine lettering, 240 pages (including references, index, brief author biography), illustrated. Mild slant, tanning, in dust jacket w/light rubbing, light general wear
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Freedom on Trial

By: Reitman, Bob

Price: $5.00

Publisher: PEC, No Number: 1966

Seller ID: 010104

Binding: Paperback

Condition: About Very Good

the story of publisher Ralph Ginzburg and his legal troubles stemming from the erotica he published; Foreward by Sloan Wilson; previous owner's signature and stamps, general wear;
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My Undercover Years With the Ku Klux Klan

By: Rowe, Gary Thomas Jr.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam 06476: 1976

Seller ID: 018239

ISBN: 0-553-06476-2

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Paperback original. "...an FBI undercover agent tells his violent, terrifying story -- how he risked his life to expose the Ku Klux Klan." 216 pagers. Spine slant, rubbing/impressions/scratches, crease to top left corner of back cover, full-length vertical crease to back cover, a little edge soil, tanning, previous owner's initials/date to inside front cover. (Notice how you get actual information about condition, not some lazy-ass b.s. like "may have" this flaw or that flaw or the other flaw, or is in "Acceptable" condition. Whatever the hell that is. Nope. If I don't provide accurate ...
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BALLAD OF THE WHISKEY ROBBER, A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts (signed)

By: Rubinstein, Julian

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Little, Brown & Company: 2004

Seller ID: 016006

ISBN: 0-316-07167-6

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First printing w/complete number sequence. The story of Attila Ambrus, "one-time pelt smuggler, professional hockey goalie (possibly the worst in the sport's history), pen salesman, Zamboni driver, gravedigger, church painter, roulette addict, building superintendent, whiskey drinker, and native of Transylvania who's decided that the best thing to do with his time is to rob as many banks as possible." This copy signed, on title page, by Rubinstein. Maroon boards w/cream cloth backstrip, pink foil spine lettering, 319 pages (including postscripts, notes on sources, bibliography, appendix and...
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A HAND IN THE WATER, The Many Lies of Albert Walker (signed)

By: Schiller, Bill

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper Collins: 1998

Seller ID: 005541

ISBN: 0-00-255751-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A story of murder, betrayal, multiple identities and ruthless ambition, all surrounding a Canadian financier "who disappeared without a trace in 1990 along with millions of dollars of investors' money--and his 15-year-old daughter, Sheena. Years later they are discovered living togther as man and wife along with two small children in a small English village." Tan boards, 290 pages, illustrated. Tiny remainder mark to bottom edge. An unread copy.
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Born To Kill

By: Shirley, Glenn

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Monarch MA393: 1963

Seller ID: 013187

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

True crime. The story of William (Billy) E. Cook, "whose orgy of violence overshadowed anything in the John Dillinger-Pretty Boy Floyd era." 126 pages. Slant, uneven fore-edge, impressions, tanning, moderate general wear.
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MY STRANGEST CASE, by Police Chiefs of the World

By: Singer, Kurt (ed.)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Garden City, Crime Club/Doubleday: 1958

Seller ID: 009346

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

from a cat burglar in Honolulu to an Australian wife-murderer (nine wives in all), eighteen law-enforcement officers each recount the strangest case of his career; included among the eighteen are Frederick Cherrill (ex-Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard) J. Edgar Hoover (Director, F.B.I.), Mike Gier (ex-Police Chief of three western Canadian cities), and accounts of crimes from Czechoslovakia, Japan, the U.S.S.R., Germany, Ecuador, and so on; dj illustration by Tony Palladino; grey cloth, 192 pgs.; mild edgewear, mild wear to corners/spine ends, off-setting to end papers, tanning; rubbed dj...
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WHAT JUSTICE IS THIS?, The Vernon Boudreau Story (signed)

By: Steele, Shirley Moore

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: 2000

Seller ID: 018468

ISBN: 0-533-13165-0

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: As New

In 1962, two-year-old Vernon Boudreau died, his death officially described as accidental. Three decades later, children of the woman who had been babysitting him when he died claimed that he had been murdered, a charge supported by expert testimony. After a preliminary trial the accused appealled to the Supreme Court of Canada, whose judges decided that because it had been so long since the boy's death, her actual trial should be stayed in order to protect her rights. Vernon Boudreau's mother here tells her son's story, from his birth through the tragedy of his death, with details of events...
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Murder in Edinburgh

By: Winton, Keith

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Edinburgh Impressions 009923: 1985

Seller ID: 014363

ISBN: 0 951 0099 2 3

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good to Very Good

Winton takes a peek at a number of murders committed in Edinburgh throughout the centuries, beginning in 1566 with the killing of David Rizzo, and ending with the death of Mrs. Bertha Merrett in 1926. In between, we have the stories of John Kincaid, Lord Forrester, Archbishop James Sharp, Philip Stanfield, Sir George Lockhart, Captain J. Cayley, Robert Irvine, Captain John Porteous, William Begbie, William Howatt, the West Port murders (Burke and Hare, of course), Elizabeth Chantrelle and Jessie King. 128 pages, illustrated. A bit of slant, impressions, small ink notation ("Mon/22/4.00") to pa...
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Punishment Without Crime

By: Zimmerman, Isidore, with Francis Bond

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Manor 127: 1972

Seller ID: 012181

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

The story of a man who spent twenty-four years in prison, convicted on an eyewitness's lie of supplying to a killer the pistol used to kill a policeman. 320 pages, Introduction by Drew Pearson. Some edgewear, thin crease to top left corner of back cover, date stamp to top edge, toned pages. A nice copy, internally tight and clean.
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