Category: True Crime

True Detective Mysteries, Vol. 18 No. 2, May 1932

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Toronto, Macfadden Magazines of Canada : 1932

Seller ID: 018952

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Good

Vintage true crime magazine presenting the luridly sensationalist details of the dastardly deeds of various criminals, each one eventually proving that crime does not pay (although the hours are apparently pretty good). This issue features articles on Hawaii's Fortescu-Massie murder case (socialite Grace Fortescue and accomplices were charged with murdering Joseph Kahahawai, a prizefighter whom Fortescue's daughter, Thalia Massie, accused of being in a group of men who raped her); the second part of a series looking at "The Ape-Like Monster That Terrified Europe"; Catawissa, Missouri's Bertha...
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True Detective Mysteries, Vol. 20 No. 4, July 1933

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Toronto, Macfadden Magazines of Canada : 1933

Seller ID: 018951

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Fair to Good

Vintage true crime magazine boasting the kind of blood-and-guts sensationalism without which our lives would be duller than dirt. This issue features articles on solving the Boettcher kidnapping, the capture of Barton "The Chopper", the truth about Sterling Wyman (apparently it's astounding), something called the crimson crime aboard a yacht, a hold-up on a Canadian Pacific train, the fourth part in a series about the mysterious Bluebeard murders, Folsom's most hated criminal, and much else, including a piece by Clara C. Walters, who at the time was warden of the Oklahoma State Reformatory, ma...
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True Detective Mysteries, Vol. XIII (13) No. 5, August 1930

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Toronto, Macfadden Magazines of Canada : 1930

Seller ID: 018956

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Fair to Good

Vintage true crime magazine presenting the sensational details of innumerable misdeeds committed by criminal lowlifes, all eventually brought to justice by splendid detective work (or, in some cases, by disgruntled stoolies spilling the beans to splendid detectives). This issue contains articles on: a tong war ("The notorious 'Lone Wolf' of the Suey Sings gives his thrilling story as he faces the gallows!"); a "jazz-mad" woman's brush with the gallows (she avoided execution by two days, having her sentence commuted to life imprisonment); a criminal named Willie "Baby-Face" Doody, Chicago's "...
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FREEDOM, Credos From the Road

By: Barger, Sonny

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper Collins : 2005

Seller ID: 015326

ISBN-13: 9780060532567

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

The well-known Hells Angel/outlaw philosopher/convicted felon/iconoclast offers "a provocative guide to leadership, survival, and success." Uncommon in proof. 212 pages. An unread copy, internally tight and clean.
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HENRY MOORE SMITH, The Mysterious Stranger

By: Bates, Walter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Woodstock, Non-Entity Press : 1979

Seller ID: 018844

ISBN-13: 9780969021513

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

Second printing of the 1979 edition. "A true story of the most remarkable prisoner ever detained in a jail in New Brunswick, as told by Walter Bates, one time Sheriff of Kings County. Being an authentic account of the numerous arrests, remarkable doings and wonderful escapes of the most noted road agent who ever pestered the authorities of New Brunswick." First published in 1910 by John A. Bowes in Saint John, New Brunswick. 164 pages + five pages advertising other titles published by Bowes in 1910. Covers lightly smudged, wrinkles/creasing, moderate general wear.
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BY REASON OF INSANITY, The David Michael Krueger Story

By: Bourrie, Mark

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Toronto & Oxford, Hounslow Press : 1997

Seller ID: 018891

ISBN-13: 9780888821966

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

In 1993, at a psychiatric hospital in Brockville, Ontario, a patient "was brutally killed in a forest grove on the grounds of the institution. One of the killers, a nearly blind psychiatric patient, walked into a nearby police station and turned himself in. The other murderer lay near the body in a sleeping bag, drugged into unconsciousness." 159 pages (including sources), illustrated. Light rubbing, a few minor impressions. Internally tight and clean.
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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. Cocked, 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 cocked, 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-13: 9780888393005

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 perso...
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The Evil That Men Do

By: Grant, B.J.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Saint John, Somerville Press : 1993

Seller ID: 018971

ISBN-13: 9780969770602

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

A collection of 10 stories that "centre on the application, non-application, or misapplication of the law in instances running from murder to election fraudery." 98 pages. Internally tight, w/some handling wear.
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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. Spine somewhat cocked, nicks to spine ends, moderate handling wear, tanning. Internally tight and clean.
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MURDER AT McDONALD'S, The Killers Next Door

By: Jessome, Phonse

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Halifax, Nimbus Publishing Company : 1994

Seller ID: 019069

ISBN-13: 9781551090931

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

Jessome tells the story of "three seemingly ordinary young men" who "brutally murdered three McDonald's employees and left a fourth for dead" in the small Cape Breton community of Sydney, Nova Scotia. The victims were Donna Warren, Neil Burroughs, Jimmy Fagan and Arlene MacNeil (who was left permanently paralyzed, and who died in 2018). 284 pages, illustrated. Moderate edgewear, impressions/scratches, foxed edges, previous owner's name to top of half-title.
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The Miramichi Axe Murder

By: Mitchell, Sandra

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Halifax, Nimbus Publishing Company 011 : 1992

Seller ID: 018281

ISBN-13: 9781551090115

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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BODIES IN THE BACKYARD (Back Yard), Canada's Frenzy Slayer, Noel Michael Winters

By: O'Neill, Brian

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Fredericton, O'Neill Enterprises : 1993

Seller ID: 019202

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

The story of "the most grisly murder episode in New Brunswick's history," which saw Noel Michael Winters murder two people who were helping him move, then, after being imprisoned and informed that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were searching his property for a missing Quebec couple who had rented a cottage from him the previous summer, commit suicide in his cell in Dorchester Penitentiary. 200 pages, illustrated. Internally tight and clean, with a bit of finish removed at top right corner of front cover (sticker removal) and light surface wear. All in all a superior copy of a much sough...
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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-13: 9781569800584

Binding: Hardcover

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. Mildly cocked, tanned, 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; Size: Sextodecimo -- from 5.75" to 6.75"
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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-13: 9780553064766

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Paperback original. In this one, "an FBI undercover agent tells his violent, terrifying story -- how he risked his life to expose the Ku Klux Klan." 216 pages. Cocked w/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. such as "may have" this flaw or that flaw or the other flaw, or is in "Acceptable" condition. Whatever the hell that is.)
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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-13: 9780316071673

Binding: Hardcover

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." Maroon boards w/cream cloth backstrip, pink foil spine lettering, 319 pages (including postscripts, notes on sources, bibliography, appendix and acknowledgements), illustrated. Gently bumped spin...
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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-13: 9780002557511

Binding: Hardcover

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 together 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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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: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

From a cat burglar in Honolulu to an Australian wife-murderer (nine wives in all), each of 18 law-enforcement officers recounts the strangest case of his career. Included 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). Also contains accounts of crimes from Czechoslovakia, Japan, the U.S.S.R., Germany, Ecuador, and so on. Grey cloth, 192 pages. Mild edgewear, mild wear to corners/spine ends, off-setting to end papers, tanning, in rubbed dust jacket w/moderate edgewear, some ye...
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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-13: 9780533131655

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 appealed 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 tha...
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The Death of Donna Whalen (signed)

By: Winter, Michael

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Hamish Hamilton Canada : 2010

Seller ID: 017561

ISBN-13: 9780670066636

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

In St. John's, Newfoundland, a woman is stabbed 31 times, with friends and family of the opinion that the murder was committed by her abusive boyfriend. From the back cover: "In this mesmerizing work of documentary fiction, Michael Winter pieces together the transcripts and court testimonies" of the boyfriend's trial, preserving "the nuanced voice of each witness." 232 pages, plus acknowledgments. A bit cocked, rubbing, impressions/scratches, light edgewear, crease to bottom right corner of front cover, a few pages slightly wavy (probably from moisture).
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Murder in Edinburgh

By: Winton, Keith

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Edinburgh Impressions 009923 : 1985

Seller ID: 014363

ISBN-13: 9780951009925

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 cocked, impressions, small ink notation ("Mon/22/4.00") to page...
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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 24 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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Category: True Crime