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Eddleston, John J.
Murderous Leeds : The Executed of the Twentieth Century
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight traces of handling. 256pp. Illustrated.
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Eddleston, John J.
Murderous Tyneside : The Executed of the Twentieth Century
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Evidence of photo pages having been slightly stuck together, now separated. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight traces of handling. 256pp. Illustrated.
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Eddleston, John J.
Murderous Sussex : The Executed of the Twentieth Century
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight indenting to upper front corner and minor traces of handling. 270pp. Illustrated.
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Eddleston, John J.
Murderous Manchester : The Executed of the Twentieth Century
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with bumping to lower corners and traces of handling. 250pp. Illustrated.
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Whitmore, Richard
Victorian and Edwardian Crime and Punishment
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with general signs of handling. Unpaginated pp. With an introduction and 147 captioned photographs
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Gardner, Erle Stanley
The Case of the Baited Hook
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to lower corner of front cover. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 188pp. Green Crime Penguin.
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Broady, Duncan & Sawkill, Carol
The Police! : 150 Years of Policing in the Manchester Area
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Minor creasing adjacent to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright slightly indented unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated. pp. Foreword from the then Chief Constable James Anderton. Well illustrated with 261 photos and images.
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Parry, Colin; Parry, Wendy
Tim : An Ordinary Boy (Signed by both Authors)
Signed by both authors on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing/rubbing to upper edge. 279pp. The tragedy of the IRA bomb which killed Tim Parry, the son of the authors, in Warrington in 1993 and their attempts to come to terms with their loss. It includes their visits to Ireland and how they set up the Warrington Project to foster links between the two communities.
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The Editor
Jury Room Tales and Other Stories
Good attendance plate inside front board. Slight traces of fingermarks and foxing to a few pages. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with dusty pictorial board/spine and minor rubbing/bumping to corners. The upper edge of front, rear and spine are slightly damp damaged but no effect to contents. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. 36 pages book adverts plus 192pp. With five stories - Jury-Room Tales; A Mistake and Its Results; Betsy's Beau; The Station-Master's Daughter and A Great Jewel-Robbery.
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Mezabih, Maregu (editor)
Children in Prisons and Detention Centres in Ethiopia : The Way Forward
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked front board, light ink marking to rear and no bumping to corners. 102pp. The situation of children in prisons in Ethopia and proposals on how to improve this situation. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works.
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Leppard, David
On the Trial of Terror : Trhe Inside Story of the Lockerbie Investigation
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of handling. 230pp. An in-depth study by one of Britain's leading investigative journalists.
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Onselen, Charle Van
The Fox and the Flies : The Criminal World of the Whitechapel Murderer (Signed By Author)
Inscribed by author on dedication page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to very slightly arched spine. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 646pp. The story of Joseph Silver who was a central character in London in the global market for commercial sex and white slavery for three turbulent decades before the First World War.
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Wallace, Edgar
The Lady of Ascot
Number (179) stamped on front cover and half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, arching to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright very slightly dusty boards, well-tanned page edges, slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 252pp. Nineteen thirties crime fiction from novelist Edgar Wallace. Undated, ca 1950. Crime-Book Society No 27.
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Simenon, Georges
Maigret's First Case
No marks or inscriptions. Faint creasing to covers, crease to lower rear corner. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly browned page edges and no bumping to corners. 171pp. Crime drama set in Paris as the young Maigret starts his career as secretary to the superintendent in a Paris police station.
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Godey, John
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight foxing to fore page edges, tiny bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with rubbing to spine ends and slight creasing/nick to upper rear edge. 316pp. Dramatic thriller set on the New York subway when hijackers kidnap a train. First UK Edition, Second Impression.
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Keith Elliot Greenberg
December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died, the
Inscription on title page. No other marks. A very clean very tight copy with a few tiny spots to otherwise unmarked boards with no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very light creasing to edges. 240pp. A full account of the murder of Beatle John Lennon in New York in 1980. Illustrated.
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Naan, Charles
Memories of Manchester
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 43pp. The author's story of his life in Manchester and Salford from the 1920s onwards. He spent much of his career in the police force and this is well described.
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Alan Coren
Arthur and the Great Detective (Puffin Books)
No marks or inscriptions. Very faint creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 61pp. Arthur helps Sherlock Holmes solve a mystery..
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Queen, Ellery
The Queen's Awards 1946
Name inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked dark turquoise cloth boards, tanned end papers and no bumping to corners. Well sunned dust jacket price clipped with nicks and chips to edges. 370pp. Sixteen detective stories from the likes of William Faulkner, TS Stribling, Philip Macdonald, Anthony Gilbert and Ngaio Marsh.
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Charles Forsyte
The Decoding of Edwin Drood [Gollancz detection]
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight rubbing to upper and lower rear edges. 222p. Part one of this book gives an account of the attempts to solve the mystery of Charles Dickens' unfinished novel. Part two provides a continuation of the story by this author, in the style of Dickens but from a 20th century vantage point.
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Ann West
For the Love of Lesley: The Moors Murders Remembered by a Victim's Mother
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, crease to one page corner and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper edge. 196pp. An account of the Moors Murders when five children were killed and buried on Saddleworth Moor above Oldham in 1964 and of the lifelong suffering of the mother of one of the victims who fought hard to ensure that Brady and Hindley never left prison. .
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John Bailey
A Poacher's Way
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Very clean very tight pages with bright unmarked red cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing to top of spine. 141pp. The author describes eighteen hectic months in the life of a professional poacher and his associates who live off the land and the sea.
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Pamela J. Ball
Jack the Ripper: A Psychic Investigation
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 197pp. The compelling paranormal search for the killer's true identity.
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David Leigh; Ed Vulliamy
Sleaze :The Corruption of Parliament
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. Crease to front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 263pp. 'This is a vastly entertaining book. It is also an alarming book. Those with faith in British democracy will look for the legend that all the characters are ficticious and any resemblance to real events merely coincidental.' They will not find this legend.
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Irina Ratushinskaya
Grey is the Colour of Hope
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased, with trace of label removal to front and sunning to spine. 286pp. The true story of the author's experience in the brutal conditions of a Soviet labour camp, to where she was sent on being arrested for her poetry aged twenty-eight.
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Tony Fletcher
Cobbled Beat
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 191pp. A fascinating account of the author's two years from 1948 as a probationary constable on the beat in one of the most heavily industrialised areas on the planet - 35 Beat known as Tripe Island, a densely populated square of land between Ancoats and Miles Platting in Manchester.
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Ron Ellis
Single Shot: A Johnny Ace Crime Novel (Signed By Author)
Inscribed by Ron to title page. Otherwise book in unread as new/fine condition. 269pp. Johnny Ace is asked to investigate industrial espionage at a Liverpool drug manufacturing company.
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David Kaser
Book Pirating in Taiwan
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked brown cloth boards and very minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket clipped but not torn or creased withwell sunned spine and some sunning to edges. Now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 154pp. A study on the unauthorized printing of English language books in the Republic of China. Scarce in the UK.
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Steven Grey
A Cold Snap on Snow Hill
An unread copy with traces of storage. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean extremely tight copy with slightly rubbed/foxed boards and no bumping to corners. 260pp. Thriller beginning with a dead body in a night club. Scarce.
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Mat Coward
Do the World a Favour and Other Stories (Uncorrected Proof)
Book in mint unread condition. 206pp. Fourteen short crime fiction stories from Mat Coward.
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J. D. Robb
Fantasy In Death
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 344pp. No 30 of JD Robb's 'In Death' novels.
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Hildick, Wallace
Vandals
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, upper corner of front end paper cut off and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 248pp. Set in Long Island, the new arrival couple from the UK hoping for calm and peace were to be sadly disappointed. The vandals had started gradually but had ramped up their version of terror, from flowers damage to the dogs and cats - and human beings must be the next target.
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J. D. Robb
Treachery In Death:
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, a little tanning to page edges, tiny ding to rear and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 375pp. No 32 of JD Robb's 'In Death' novels.
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Douglas Botting
The Pirates (Seafarers)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked faux-leather padded boards and no bumping to corners. 192pp. A very well illustrated history of the criminal fraternity at sea. Tucked in is a wallet holding two images of typical pirate ships - a brigantine and a sloop, and two official ships - a naval sloop and a man-of-war.
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Alanna Knight
Murder by Appointment (Inspector Faro) (Signed By Author)
Inscribed by Alanna Knight to title page. No other added marks or inscriptions. Very minor crease to lower corner of front cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny stain/foxing marks to page fore-edges and no bumping to corners. 202pp. An Inspector Faro detective crime story set in 19th century Edinburgh.
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Rigsby, Howard
Murder for the Holidays
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to end papers and extremely minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with nicks and chips to edges. Now protected in fully removable transparent sleeve. 160pp. Undated ca 1951. Detective mystery set in San Francisco. Scarce in the UK.
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Clune, Frank & Stephensen, P. R.
The Pirates of the Brig Cyprus
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxed page edges and no bumping to corners. Slightly foxed dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with tiny nicks to lower front edge and top of spine. 205pp. A fascinating true story from 1829 when a group of convicts being transported to the penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land (now known as Tasmania) mutinied and managed to sail the ship all the way to Japan and the South China Sea. They were later re-captured, some were hanged and some did eventually end up in Van Diemen's Land.
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Ann Rule
Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Erotic Obsession and Murder: A True Story of Erotic Obsession, Revenge and Murder
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to spine ends. 446pp. This story peels away the mask of a mult-millionaire genius, Allen Blackthorne, a violent sociopath who hid behind his classic good looks, charm and money, and left a trail of con jobs and wives in his wake before finally ordering the death one ex-wife.
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Max Allan Collins
Road to Purgatory
Appears unread. Book in as new condition. 288pp. Crime fiction about a gangster set in Chicago in 1942 and in 1922 about the man's father. Uncorrected Proof copy. the
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J. A. Jance
The Day of the Dead
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 370pp. A retired Sheriff in Arizona joins a group looking into unsolved murders and finds himself in a strange world of forensice science, tribal mysticism and terror when he looks into a case that only he can unravel. First Edition, Second Printing.
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Brian Lane (editor)
The Murder Club : Guide to the Eastern and Home Counties
No marks or inscriptions. Small crease to upper corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 188pp. True crime accounts from East Anglia and the Home Counties.
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Carol Anne Davis
Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 267pp. Detailed study from the 20th century of children who have killed - by fire, poison, strangulation, gunshots or knives.
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John Bryson
Evil Angels
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with very slightly marked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight rubbing to upper edge and minor traces of storage. 550pp. The case of Lindy Chamberlain whose 9 week old daughter disappeared in Australia in the 1980s. A dingo was initially blamed. There was no body, no weapon and no motive, Then the mother was indicted and imprisoned for the murder. Finally with new evidence avaiable, she was released and pardoned. This study describes the events and the case in full.
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Peter Robinson
The Price of Love: (DCI Banks)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 338pp. An Inspector Banks novella plus ten more brilliant and eclectic stories. Just a number '1' on the copywright page.
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Brian McGilloway
Bleed a River Deep (Inspector Devlin Mystery 3)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 297pp. Third in the Inspector Devlin crime fiction series. First edition, second impression.
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Wood, Andrew
Murder By the Minute
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges, tanning to end papers and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with foxing to rear and spine, tear to front and small piece missing from lower spine corner. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 175pp. A Magnus Keeble detective fiction story. Assumed first edition ca 1950s. Very scarce with dust jacket.
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Freeman, John (editor)
Prisons Past and Future (Cambridge Study in Criminology)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight rubbing to upper and lower edges. 239pp. Published in commemoration of the bicentenary of John Howard's 'The State of the Prisons' which led to the formation of the Howard League for Penal Reform. This work brings together the principal papers presented at a conference to mark this event which looked at the past, present and future of imprisonment.
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Avon Curry
A Place of Execution
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 174pp. Crime fiction.
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Tom Cullen
Maundy Gregory: Purveyor of Honours
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny nicks to upper edge and minor foxing to spine. 256pp. A study of the man at the centre of the web of corruption and intrigue during the later years of Lloyd George as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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Purdy, Anthony and Sutherland, Douglas
Burgess and MacLean
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked navy cloth boards, foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with tiny tears and nicks to edges and a little rubbing. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 191pp. An account of the story of Burgess and Maclean, the British diplomats who were spys for the Russians, including the story of their previous lives.
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