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New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a minor bump to front corner tip and a small shelf mark to lower closed edge). Dustjacket has a little creasing and VG+. xiv + 803 pages. Expansive in its coverage, the book presents material on crime and punishment trends as well as timely… Read more about this item

London: Angus and Robertson, 1984. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. The journalist author first brought the plot to kill Pope John Paul II into the open, and now in a deeply personal, well documented and engrossing book, she brings us the inside story. She takes us behind the scenes in four countries,… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt, 2002. A near Fine copy (would be Fine apart from a mark to rear endpaper) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Stated First edition, first printing. Before 1998 few Americans had ever heard of Jasper, Texas but that all changed on June 7 when a trio of young white men chained a 49… Read more about this item

London: Virago Press, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Translated from the French by Penelope Dening. On 28 May 1996 twelve year old Sabine Dardenne was kidnapped by the man who turned out to be one of Belgium's most heinous paedophiles. She was his prisoner for eighty long days. 'The Dutroux… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1984. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. COP, in San Diego, stands for Community Oriented Policing and is the guiding philosophy of its Police Department, which has virtually done away with every stereotype associated with law enforcement in the United States. Raw, touching, pacy, filled with perceptive portraits… Read more about this item

London: Constable, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. In the globalized 21st century, where organized criminals and international terrorists reign as the most powerful special-interest group, money laundering has grown from a niche white-collar crime into legitimate business and government. In this devastating expose, the first thorough dissection of the dark heart… Read more about this item

London: Simon & Schuster Books For Young People, 1989. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped.The book takes us inside the powerful hierarchy of the Mormon faith, where history is sacred, faith is never meant to be questioned, and spies are commonplace. The story begins in 1985 with the death by bombing of the… Read more about this item

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First printing (printed in the United States). Sam Giancana was once the most powerful Mafia boss west of the Mississippi, the Chicago mafia's successor to Al Capone. Now 9 years after his gangland slaying, his daughter has… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Puttnam's Sons, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good unmarked copy apart from a red line to top edge. Dustjacket is complete with a little wear to top edge. The award winning journalists present an extraordinary untold story of one of the greatest detective and espionage stories. Four days before Christmas, 1988 Pan Am flight 103… Read more about this item

London: Franklin Watts, 1971. First UK edition. A Very Good+ unmarked copy apart from a touch of foxing to fore edge with VG+ price clipped dustjacket. The stories behind many 'firsts' in the history of crime, including the most famous art thief in history who was identified by means of his fingerprints. At times the art of identification can be… Read more about this item

London: John Blake, 2003. First edition, First printing. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ complete dustjacket. In this book the author, an investigative journalist, lifts the lid on the lives of these most specialised of assassins - a hard look at professional killers, the people who hire them and the people who die at their hands. … Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with age darkening to page edges with VG+ complete dustjacket. The book re-examines all the sensational details of the murders ascribed to Jack the Ripper, investigating the roles and reliability of the various policemen involved, analysing the evidence against all the suspects, and from an exhaustive search of original documents,… Read more about this item

London: Orion, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. The person identified in this book as the killer of five women in London's East End in 1888 has never before been named as a suspect in more than 100 years of intense speculation. A very eminent man in his field, naming him will cause… Read more about this item

London: John Blake, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. In the 30 years since Lord Lucan vanished, numerous books, articles and television programmes have theorised on his possible fate, but now the author, a former detective, dubbed Scotland Yard's top undercover cop, has tracked down the incredible truth. He has unearthed the audacious charade which… Read more about this item

London: Chancellor Press, 1993. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket which has age darkening to page edges with VG+ complete dustjacket. Not a book for the squeamish, it features the true life stories of the most brutal and depraved killers which have shocked the civilized world, from the classic cases of previous centuries to the… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph, 1994. A Fine unmarked copy with complete dustjacket. Written to accompany the BBC televison series, the book is a far reaching account of the inner workings of the Metropolitan Police, senior officers at Scotland Yard having allowed access to operational squads and aspects of police work to an extent never before permitted. Fleming gives fly-on-the-wall accounts of… Read more about this item

London: Blake, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. A near Fine unmarked copy with a small indentation to front with near Fine complete dustjacket. Helen Barnett was an elite member of the secretive SO19, the London equivalent of a US SWAT team, authorised to kill, where the daily challenges ranged from armed hostage situations to IRA bombs and schizophrenic knifemen. Known… Read more about this item

New York: Birch Lane Press, 1993. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A near Fine unmarked copy with Very Good + complete dustjacket. A compelling true crime story in the San Fernando Valley, California, where a hired killer, a masked motorcyclist, stalked Anita Green and shot her, execution style, in the back of the head. She was the president of her temple… Read more about this item

Kettering, Northants: Index, 2001. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from minor indentations to rear top edge) with pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket. Dustjacket is complete and VG +. The author is a research biochemist who has written extensively on forensic science investigation and is a member of the Crime Writers' Association. Featured cases include - Ted Bundy -… Read more about this item

New York: Harper Collins, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Kato Kaelin lived with O.J. Simpson and his wife Nicole and was a confidant of both and what they told him he related to the author, detailing virtually every detail of the days leading up to and following the… Read more about this item