Bradley Geoff editor
CADS : Crime and Detective Stories : Vol 27 January 1996
South Benfleet: Geoff Bradley 1996. No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to upper corner of last few pages. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards. 78pp. An irregular magazine of comment and criticism about crime and detective fiction. Featured in this issue are Robert Goddard Edgar Wallace's The Four Just Men Leslie Charteris plus much more. Scarce. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 11.75 x 8.25 inches. Geoff Bradley Paperback
Bookseller reference : 022174
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Bradley Geoff editor
CADS : Crime and Detective Stories : Vol 34 December 1998
South Benfleet: Geoff Bradley 1998. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards. 78pp. An irregular magazine of comment and criticism about crime and detective fiction. Featured in this issue are Gentleman vs Player some British private eyes and John Dickson Carr plus much more. Scarce. Soft Cover. Fine. 11.75 x 8.25 inches. Geoff Bradley Paperback
Bookseller reference : 022178
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Bradley Geoff editor
CADS : Crime and Detective Stories : Vol 33 July 1998
South Benfleet: Geoff Bradley 1998. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards. 78pp. An irregular magazine of comment and criticism about crime and detective fiction. Featured in this issue are crime writers at Balliol Five ladies of crime and John Wainwright plus much more. Scarce. Soft Cover. Fine. 11.75 x 8.25 inches. Geoff Bradley Paperback
Bookseller reference : 022177
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LEE STAN : FRIEDRICH GARY : THOMAS ROY : CONWAY GERRY
MARVEL PREMIERE CLASSIC Vol. 28 BLACK WIDOW : Sting of the Widow Direct Market Limited Hardcover Edition
<p>New York: MARVEL COMICS 2008. Graphic Novels. Illus. by HECK DON : ROMITA JOHN : BUSCEMA JOHN : COLAN GENE : . New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. HB - 1st. Print Limited to 800 Copies NEW/NEW Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap - She started as a super-spy and ended up a super-star! After failed endeavors with the Crimson Dynamo Natasha Romanova ditches her fishnets for a black bodysuit and a solo crime-fighting career against gangsters and terrorists in rare stories not reprinted in decades! Goliath formerly the archer known as Hawkeye wants them to be a costumed couple but an android matchmaker has other ideas when he manipulates the Black Widow into rescuing Daredevil the better to use them both! Guest-starring Spider-Man! .</p> MARVEL COMICS hardcover
Bookseller reference : 006749 ISBN : 0785137955 9780785137955
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Crime and the City Solution
American Twilight
Mute 2013-03-26. Vinyl. Used:Good. Mute unknown
Bookseller reference : DADAXB00B23O8OS
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WAGNER MATT
The SHADOW YEAR ONE Omnibus Signed Limited Hardcover Edition
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 2015. Graphic Novels. Illus. by TORRES WILFREDO : WAGNER MATT. New. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. HB - Signed Limited Edition - New in Illustrated Boards / No DJ as issued - Here for the first time is unveiled the origin story of how the Master of Men returned to America following his many adventures abroad in the aftermath of World War I. How did Lamont Cranston launch his legendary crusade against crime assemble his vast network of covert operatives and meet his lover and companion Margo Lane A treat for longtime Shadow fans and a perfect introduction to the character for a whole new generation of readers. Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of men The Shadow Knows! Collects the complete ten-issue storyline #1-10 from The Shadow: Year One including a pin-up gallery of over 50 comic book covers by top-tier artistic talent including Alex Ross Matt Wagner Chris Samnee Howard Chaykin and Wilfredo Torres plus the complete script to the first chapter. . DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 006325 ISBN : 1606906356 9781606906354
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James Fox
White Mischief
Penguin Middlesex 1984. First Penguin Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Size: Octavo standard book size. 299 pp. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean neat and free of foxing . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: True Crime; Africa; #94633; Law & Criminal Studies. ISBN: 0140067906. ISBN/EAN: 9780140067903. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 38218. . 9780140067903 Penguin paperback
Bookseller reference : 38218 ISBN : 0140067906 9780140067903
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MILLER FRANK
SIN CITY : A DAME to KILL FOR Nos. 1-6 Complete 6 Issue Series - 1st. Prints NM
Milwauke Oregon: DARK HORSE COMICS 1993. Bound Comic/Digest. Illus. by MILLER FRANK. Near Mint. Comic. First Edition. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Comics - Complete 6 Issue Set - 1st. Prints NM The classic prequel to Sin City : The Hard Goodbye - Marv Nancy and all the usual suspects show up in this one - This Sin City prequel has been adapted into a major motion picture. DARK HORSE COMICS Paperback
Bookseller reference : 005112
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Maggie Siggins
Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm
McClelland & Stewart Toronto 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: photos. Size: Octavo standard book size. 435 pp. Text is free of previous owner's markings. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. General shelf wear to dust jacket with small chips and tears along the edges. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Previous owner's inscription in ink neat. Edges neat intact and free of foxing but a bit dusty. Illustrator: photos. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: True Crime; Canada; 1980s; #32654; History. ISBN: 0771081553. ISBN/EAN: 9780771081552. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: AC008319I. . 9780771081552 McClelland & Stewart hardcover
Bookseller reference : AC008319I ISBN : 0771081553 9780771081552
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Dees Morris; Fiffer Steve
Hate on Trial : The Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi
New York N.Y.: Random House 1993. Hardcover Very Good/Very Good 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Random House Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 030522-K558 ISBN : 067940614X 9780679406143
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Giancana Sam & Chuck
Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America
Warner Books 1992. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Photographs. Warner Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1119012 ISBN : 0446516244 9780446516242
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Berson Fred
AFTER THE BIG HOUSE: The True Adventures of a Parole Officer
N.Y.: Popular Library 1953. 1st priniting March 1953. Popular Giant G-122. " His Fred Berson's experience reads like a succession of capsule melodramas replete with pistol-play tough hoodlums loose women and parole officers who perform in current private - eye fashion." New York Times. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Book. Popular Library Paperback
Bookseller reference : 019565
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United States. President's Commission on Organized Crime.
The edge: organized crime business and labor unions :report to the President and the Attorney General
University of California Libraries. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. University of California Libraries unknown
Bookseller reference : GRP114994283
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E. Phillips crime
Harvey Garrard's
Good. Little Brown 1926 first edition hardcover without dust jacket. Cover shows some wear top of spine. Pages are clean. Binding is sound. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7W-UPLN-21LJ
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Smyth Frank
Crimes & Victims
Leicestershire England: Abbeydale Press 2004. Large softcover revised and updated edition 884gms 192 pages. Murders most foul crimes of horror crimes of passion organised crime crooks and conmen. Book is in good condition with only mild general wear and tear and light page discolouration otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Revised and Updated Edition. Softcover. Good/Not Applicable. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Abbeydale Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : TRU136 ISBN : 1861470525 9781861470522
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Committee on Proactive Policing: Effects on Crime Communities and Civil Liberties Committee on Law and Justice Division of Beh
Proactive Policing: Effects on Crime and Communities National Academies Press of Sciences Engineering Medicine Consensus Study Report
National Academies Press 2018-03-23. Paperback. VeryGood. 8.9764 inches 5.9843 inches. National Academies Press paperback
Bookseller reference : mon0002163946 ISBN : 0309467136 9780309467131
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Roland Paul
The Crimes of Jack the Ripper
London: Capella. 2006. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. 208 pages . 1st thus. Softcover. Capella paperback
Bookseller reference : BIB309203 ISBN : 1841934186 9781841934181
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Weinman Sarah
The Real Lolita
<p>First Paperback edition first printing of a look into the kidnapping of Sara Horner in 1948 and the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita. Winner of the 2019 Macavity Award for Best Non Fiction. SIGNED by the author on the title page. In fine unread condition.</p> Ecco paperback
Bookseller reference : biblio15505 ISBN : 0062661930 9780062661937
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Fatal Attraction: When Love Turns to Murder True Crime Library Mike James James
Fatal Attraction: When Love Turns to Murder True Crime Library Mike
Fair. Creasing to spine. Same day dispatch Mon-Fri from the UK if ordered by 1pm. Actual book shown below. unknown
Bookseller reference : 8T-39EQ-DNR6 ISBN : 187435801X 9781874358015
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Crime Investigated: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley Murder on the Moors
Heatherton VIC Australia: Hinkler Books Pty Ltd 2014. Softcover with flaps first edition 580gms 224 pages decorated endpapers. A definitive guide to the deranged serial-killing couple. Book is in very good condition with only mild general wear and tear otherwise no other pre-loved markings. First Edition. Softcover with Flaps. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Hinkler Books Pty Ltd Paperback
Bookseller reference : TRU135 ISBN : 1743671873 9781743671870
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Blackburn Estelle
Broken Lives: The Complete Life and Crimes of Serial Killer Eric Edgar Cooke
Prahran Australia: Hardie Grant Books 2005. Softcover reprint 620gms 462 pages. Broken Lives made Australian legal history proving that two innocent men John Button and Darryl Beamish went to jail for two of Eric Edgar Cooke's crimes. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and light page discolouration throughout otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Reprint. Softcover. Good/Not Applicable. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Hardie Grant Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : TRU134 ISBN : 174064073X 9781740640732
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Carol Anne Davis
Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers
London: Allison & Busby 2003. 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. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Allison & Busby Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 022056 ISBN : 0749006102 9780749006105
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John Bryson
Evil Angels
Australia: Viking 1985. 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. Hard Cover. Very Good /Very Good. 9.25 x 6.5 inches. Viking Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 022057 ISBN : 0670809934 9780670809936
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Peter Robinson
The Price of Love: DCI Banks
London: Hodder & Stoughton 2009. 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. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 022082 ISBN : 0340919515 9780340919514
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Philip Priestly
Jail Journeys: The English Prison Experience Since 1918
London: Routledge 1989. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards foxing to fore-edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper and lower edges and general traces of storage. 197pp. A contemporary 20th century history of the English prison system in the words of those who have endured it as prisoners and who have worked within it. with more than 1000 extracts from over 150 first-hand accounts of prison life. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good /Near Very Good. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Routledge Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 022059 ISBN : 0415034582 9780415034586
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Brian McGilloway
Bleed a River Deep Inspector Devlin Mystery 3
London: Macmillan 2009. 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. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Macmillan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 022091 ISBN : 0230701361 9780230701366
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Brian McGilloway
Bleed a River Deep Inspector Devlin Mystery 3
London: Macmillan 2009. 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. World politics big business and organized crime set in Ireland. Inspector Ben Devlin investigates. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Macmillan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 022044 ISBN : 0230701361 9780230701366
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Brian Lane editor
The Murder Club : Guide to the Eastern and Home Counties
London: Harrap 1989. 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. Soft Cover. Very Good . 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Harrap Paperback
Bookseller reference : 021989 ISBN : 0245546790 9780245546792
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J. A. Jance
The Day of the Dead
London: HarperCollins 2004. 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. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. HarperCollins Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 021975 ISBN : 0007194269 9780007194261
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Max Allan Collins
Road to Purgatory
New York: William Morrow & Company 2004. 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. Uncorrected Proof. Soft Cover. Fine. 9 x 6 inches. William Morrow & Company Paperback
Bookseller reference : 021970 ISBN : 0060540273 9780060540272
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Andrew Taylor
Where Roses Fade: A Lydmouth mystery
London: Hodder & Stoughton 2000. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards very slightly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with crease down spine slight rubbing to spine ends and minor traces of storage. 401pp. Unexplained deaths needing a solution in this fifth in the Lydmouth mysteries. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 021901 ISBN : 0340695994 9780340695999
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Committee on Understanding Crime Trends
Understanding Crime Trends: Workshop Report
National Academies Press 2009-01-05. Paperback. Used:Good. National Academies Press paperback
Bookseller reference : DADAX0309125863 ISBN : 0309125863 9780309125864
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Barthel Joan
LOVE OR HONOUR : THE TRUE STORY OF AN UNDERCOVER POLICEMAN WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THE MAFIA BOSS'S DAUGHTER
London: Judy Piatkus Publishers Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owners name ffep. Top edge of jakcet . minor wear. 1989. Hardcover. 0861889533 . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 266 pages . Judy Piatkus Publishers Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 33633 ISBN : 0861889533 9780861889532
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Hardy Alexander G. US Prosecutor Nuernberg War Crime Trials
HITLER'S SECRET WEAPON : The "Managed" Press and Propaganda Machine of Nazi Germany
Vantage Press 1967. 350pp. Hardback red board covers DJ has 2 two inch tears on the front and one on the back with creases slight wear at corner tips and spine ends light brown foxing spots on outer page edges signed and inscribed by author on front end page stated First Edition index b&w photos some are graphic and illustrations chapter notes and references Includes: Managed news Creation of the Nazi Party Press and propaganda apparatus The German government press and propaganda machine under the Nazis The Nazi propaganda lords Nazi pageantry propaganda information on the "Skeleton Collection" samples of terrorizing Headlines . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Vantage Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : w121113893
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Corwin Miles
Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit
New York: Henry Holt and Company 2003. Books jacket has very minor creases. Hard Back. Good/Good. Fiction. Henry Holt and Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : EC6686 ISBN : 0805067981 9780805067989
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CARLTON STOWERS
INNOCENCE LOST THE TRUE STORY OF A QUIET TEXAS TWON AND THE COLDBOLLDED MURDER COMMITTED BY ITS KIDS
NEW YORK: POCKET BOOKS 1990. Hard bound in dust cover both in very good condition. Front cover illustrated with a black and white picture. Cover and page edging are slightly soiled. Leaves are clean. Illustrated with black and white pictures. Has 291 pages. HARD BOUND. Very Good/Very Good. POCKET BOOKS unknown
Bookseller reference : MN10662 ISBN : 0671668196 9780671668198
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ARMANDA COOLEY CARRIE BESS AND MARSHA RUBIN JACKSON
A RUSH TO JUDGEMENT
BEVERLY HILLS CA.: DOVE BOOKS 1995. Hard bound in dust cover both in very good condition. Front cover illustrated with a color picture. Cover and page edging are slightly soiled. Leaves are clean. Illustrated with black and white pictures. Has 237 pages. HARD BOUND. Very Good/Very Good. DOVE BOOKS unknown
Bookseller reference : MN9497 ISBN : 0787109185 9780787109189
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Fuhrman Mark
Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley
New York: HarperCollins 1998. Book jacket has minor creases and wear. Book is in good condition. Hard Back. Good/Good. Non-Fiction. HarperCollins Hardcover
Bookseller reference : EC6548 ISBN : 0060191414 9780060191412
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Rule Ann
Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession Revenge and Murder
New York: The Free Press 2001. Hard Back. Good/Good. Non-Fiction. The Free Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : EC6619 ISBN : 0743202961 9780743202961
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ANN RULE
EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE A TRUE STORY OF OBSESSION REVENGE AND MURDER
NEW YORK: THE FREE PRESS 2001. Hard bound in dust cover both in very good condition. Front cover illustrated with a color picture. Cover and page edging are slightly soiled. Leaves are clean. Illustrated with black and white pictures. Has 446 pages. HARD BOUND. Very Good/Very Good. THE FREE PRESS Hardcover
Bookseller reference : MN9159 ISBN : 0743202961 9780743202961
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LAWRENCE SCHILLER AND JAMES WILLWERTH
AMERICAN TRAGEDY THE UNCENSORED STORY OF THE SIMPSON DEFENSE
NEW Y ORK: RANDOM HOUSE 1996. Hard bound in dust cover both in very good condition. Back cover illustrated with a color picture. Cover and page edging are slightly soiled. Leaves are clean. Has 702 page's. Hard Back. VERY GOOD/Very Good. RANDOM HOUSE Hardcover
Bookseller reference : MN7858 ISBN : 0679456821 9780679456827
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JOHN WALSH HOST OF AMERICA'S MOST WANTED WITH SUSAN SCHINDEHETTE
TEARS OF RAGE
NEW YORK: POCKET BOOKS 1997. Hard bound in dust cover both in very good condition. Front cover illustrated with picture of author and his son. Cover and page edging are slightly soiled. Leaves are clean. Illustrated with black and white pictures. Has 318 pages. Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. POCKET BOOKS Hardcover
Bookseller reference : MN3017 ISBN : 0671006614 9780671006617
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MARK FUHRMAN
MUDER IN SPOKANE CATCHING A ERIAL KILLER
NEW YORK: CLIFF STREET BOOKS 2001. Hard bound in dust cover both in very good condition. Front and back cover illustrated with color pictures. Cover and page edging are slightly soiled. Leaves are clean. Has 292 pages. Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. CLIFF STREET BOOKS Hardcover
Bookseller reference : MN4382 ISBN : 0060194375 9780060194376
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Birkett Sir Norman Edited and Selected
The New Newgate Calendar
London: The Folio Society. 1960. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition. No Slipcase. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 260 pages The trials and punishments for crimes in nineteenth century London. . 1st Edition. Hardback. The Folio Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIB309081
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National Crime Prevention Council US. U. S.
150 tested strategies to prevent crime from small cities counties and rural communities: A resource for municipal agencies and community groups
National Crime Prevention Council 2000-01-01. Unknown Binding. Used:Good. National Crime Prevention Council unknown
Bookseller reference : DADAX093451397X ISBN : 093451397X 9780934513975
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McBain Ed
The Big Bad City: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
Simon & Schuster 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.00. Tight spine bright pages. Previous owner's name label small in book front on blank page Jeanne M. Sherwood - Pocatello Idaho. Date written above the label 10-00. NO other writing or marks inside book. NO tears inside book. 272 pages. Ed McBain is the only American winner of the coveted Diamond Dagger Award and he is also a past recipient of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award. So when a reader picks up the latest installment of McBain's 87th Precinct series the bar is set pretty high. But with The Big Bad City McBain meets expectations. In the opening pages Steve Carella and Artie Brown return to the department with 9 basketball players the 10th player was murdered only to discover a knife fight erupting in a holding cell. It's a steamy August night and Carella and Detective Parker end up having to shoot one of the fighters to cool things down. Then Meyer and Kling enter the scene; they're hot in pursuit of the Cookie Boy a thief who leaves chocolate-chip cookies at every crime sight. Before the interminable day is done Carella and Brown are called out to Grover Park to investigate a homicide. A nun has been strangled to death but she's no ordinary Sister. She's got signs of a breast augmentation operation that hint at a sordid past. Finally readers are privy to a conversation between Juju and Sonny. Sonny killed a cop's dad and Juju is convinced that the police will bend the rules to see that Sonny winds up dead. Juju insists that the only way out of the death trap is to kill the cop first. The officer's name is Steve Carella. And all of this happens in the first 15 pages. McBain is one of the artists of the police procedural. Though his city is fictional it breathes with the darkness and gritty reality of many American cities. He enters the minds and hearts of his characters to uncover the daily insecurities that accompany the work of policemen. Readers new to the 87th Precinct will want to venture back to such tales as 1956's Cop Hater 1964's Ax and 1965's Doll among the 47 installments in this series. Those who've been along for the ride will be happy they did not give up their seat. --Patrick O'Kelley From Publishers Weekly: McBain has been writing his 87th Precinct stories since 1956 but Isola's cops and crooks remain as fresh as rain. In the 49th book in the series detectives Steve Carella and Artie Brown are searching for the killer of a nun. An autopsy reveals that the strangled woman had breast implants and an unconventional background moving between her pious charitable order and a freewheeling secular life. Other oddities are plaguing the 87th too. The hood who recently murdered Carella's father is walking around loose because an inept prosecutor blew the case. Now the thug is stalking Carella and Carella's sister wants to marry the prosecutor. Meanwhile detectives Meyer Meyer and Bert King are tracking the Cookie Boy a burglar who leaves a little box of home-baked chocolate chip cookies at his victims' homes. His crimes escalate to felony murder when he interrupts a tryst and things go very bad very quickly. As always McBain invests the many story lines with off-the-wall humor nun jokes abound a startlingly real cast of suspects and witnesses and a terrifically entertaining mix of cop dialogue gritty city atmosphere and action. McBain is so good he ought to be arrested. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information Inc. Simon & Schuster Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 042156 ISBN : 0684855127 9780684855127
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Uhnak Dorothy
Codes of Betrayal
St Martins Pr 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $23.95. Dustcover shows light wear NO tears. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 293 pages. Synopsis Codes of Betrayal is a drama of double cross and triple jeopardy. At it's center is Nick O'Hara an NYPD member whose shifting family loyalties will ultimately force him to confront his deepest notions of honor loyalty and justice. The son of an Irish father and an Italian mother Nick O'Hara has always been a loyal cop. His relationship with his grandfather Mafia boss Nicholas Ventura has been an albatross but never an issue. Then in a moment of carelessness he sends his thirteen-year-old son Peter to spend the afternoon at a Little Italy street fair with his underboss cousin. Caught in an alley between Little Italy and Chinatown the boy is brutally gunned down a bystander caught between mob crosshairs. San Francisco Chronicle Uhnak knows the grimy turf of murder and mayhem from the inside out. St Martins Pr Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 037495 ISBN : 0312155824 9780312155827
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Gosling John
The Ghost Squad
London: Odhams 1960. Odhams Popular Book Club edition from 1960. Some creasing and tears to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The author's account of the so-called "Ghost Squad" four undercover Scotland Yard detectives who were responsible for over 1000 arrests and the recovery of �250000 worth of stolen property between 1946 and 1950 back when a quarter of a million pounds was a lot of money. 215pp 8 b&w illustrations. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Odhams Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 009769
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Element of Crime
Die Schoenen Rosen
Imports 2014-01-28. Vinyl. Used:Good. Imports unknown
Bookseller reference : DADAXB00G3QD25U
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Henshall Ian & Morgan Rowland
9/11 Revealed Challenging The Facts Behind the War on Terror
London: Constable & Robinson 2005. First UK Edition. Paperback. Good . Radical and controversial look into the 'facts' surrounding the 9/11 attacks. Whether you believe any of the conspiracy theories discussed in this book the details are both grimly fascinating and chillingly plausable at times. The truth - or just the ramblings of over imaginative radicals Read and decide for yourself. Contains 253 pages 19.5 x 14cm. Illustrated throughout with numerous colour and b&w photos plus maps and charts. Ex-library faint remains of paper label on front endpaper plus some library markings. Pictorial card covers in good condition. Internally good: shows ocassional faint stains but generally clean bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. <br /> Constable & Robinson paperback
Bookseller reference : 01897 ISBN : 1845291409 9781845291402
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