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Arcturus, London, 2019. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. Bloody, violent, and sometimes spectacularly stage-managed, assassinations have become shocking landmarks in modern history, distinguished by their careful planning and cold-hearted detachment.Author Charlotte Greig explores some of the most notorious assassinations in history, looking in depth at the killers, their motives, and the impact the deaths of victims had on society. She investigates the controversies that have arisen where the killers' motives have been unclear or their ability to organize such a crime unaided has been questionable.From the assassinations of Rasputin, Franz Ferdinand, and John F. Kennedy to Gianni Versace, John Lennon, Benazir Bhutto, and Martin Luther King - along with near misses on Ronald Reagan, Andy Warhol, Margaret Thatcher, and Sergei Skripal - this fascinating book gives you the inside track on the drama, horror, and bloody aftermath of assassinations, some of which have… Read More

Time-Life, London, 2004. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Tells the stories of Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, and Sirhan Sirhan, and looks at the assassination attempts on United States presidents, the Pope, Huey Long, Leon Trotsky, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Gandhi, and Indira Gandhi 176 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: True Crime; True Crime; ISBN: 1844471071. ISBN/EAN: 9781844471072. Inventory No: 265513.. 9781844471072

Reader's Digest, New York, 2004. Hardcover (Printed Boards). As New/As New. Illuminated with newspaper clippings, diagrams, archival artifacts, and photographs, this is a chronicle of more than two thousand years of murder and assassination, taking a close up look at the killings - and attempted murders - of a variety of political figures, celebrities, and religious leaders. 192 pages. GIFT QUALITY. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: True Crime; United States; True Crime; ISBN: 0762105968. ISBN/EAN: 9780762105960. Inventory No: 258023. . 9780762105960

Affirm Press, Australia, 2022. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. On a balmy Townsville night in 1944, young serviceman Warwick Meale is found beaten to death under a bridge. The army and police do not, or will not, conduct a proper investigation and history forgets the killer - until now. Nearly eighty years on, Warwick's descendant Jonathan Butler dusts off the case and chases the leads that were there all along. The Boy in the Dress exhumes secrets of life on the home front during World War II, where tensions between soldiers boiled over, new expressions of sexuality flourished and the threat of invasion catapulted the status quo into disarray. The truth of this family legend, and this little-known chapter in Australian military history, is more complex and engrossing than anyone could have imagined. 273 pages. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: True Crime; True Crime; ISBN/EAN: 9781922626943. Inventory No: 267475.. 9781922626943

Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2001. Softcover. Good Condition. Father's Day 1984: seven people die in a blaze of gunfire on a sunny afternoon in a hotel car park. Among the dead, a fifteen year old girl caught in the crossfire when two heavily-armed bikie gangs, the Comancheros and the Bandidos, clash. Brothers in Arms tells the extraordinary story of this murderous outbreak, from its vicious beginnings in the closed world of Sydney's motorcycle gangs to its inevitable end in death and imprisonment. 267 pages. Light tanning to pages. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: True Crime; True Crime; ISBN: 1865085014. ISBN/EAN: 9781865085012. Inventory No: 267902.. 9781865085012

Bantam Books, Australia, 2002. Softcover. Good Condition. Film Tie-in Frank Abagnale wrote US$2.5 million in bad cheques, practised law without a licence, practised medicine with no medical training, co-piloted a Pan-Am jet with a fake licence, taught at a college though he was actually a high school drop-out, and managed to outwit and outrage the police of 26 foreign countries and every US state, before he turned 21.Catch Me If You Can is the hilarious, now-classic story of Abagnale's stranger-than-fiction international escapades, and his ingenious escapes - including one from an airplane. This amazing true story of how one man fooled multi-national corporations, banks, universities, hospitals, and law enforcement organisations around the world is utterly riveting, and astounding even today, and contains all the ingredients of the most wildly imaginative fiction (except that all of Abagnale's exploits actually happened).Stylish, charming and not one to skimp on luxury,… Read More

Sphere Books, London, 1988. Softcover. Good Condition. A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime Here are ten murder cases of "the old-fashioned sort"-evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction-that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these grisly tales range from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New York (where a gentleman named Molineux provided a drastic cure for hangovers by putting cyanide in a gift-wrapped bottle of Bromo Seltzer) to an apartment in Glasgow (home of a wealthy Scotswoman whose demise seemed to have been satisfactorily explained by local constables, until Arthur Conan Doyle assumed the role of Sherlock Holmes) and from a builder's workshop in North London (site of a murder committed by a man called Furnace, who suited his criminal action to his name) to the elegant dwelling of a menage a trois near the Thames (scene of a puzzling poisoning that, years later,… Read More

Arcturus Publishing Limited, London, 2006. Softcover. As New. There's nothing more chilling than an unsolved crime, particularly one involving direct harm to human life; be it murder or rape, these are the crimes whose effects extend furthest and cause most pain to humanity: how much worse when they go unsolved and, as such, unpunished? Such crimes, so-called 'cold cases', are all too common, especially in the big cities where hundreds if not thousands of such incidents remain on file. After the initial furore of questioning suspects and analyzing motives has died down, investigators are often left with no leads, and the uneasy knowledge that a dangerous person is still on the loose, possibly preparing to strike again. But there is hope. With the development of science, and the continuing improvements in detection techniques, the re-examination of old, unsolved crimes is yielding positive results, often decades after the cases originally went 'cold'. This book documents the… Read More

Arrow Books, London, 1968. Softcover. Good Condition. Four famous authors choose a crime which fascinates them Small tear to bottom of spine edge. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: True Crime; True Crime; Inventory No: 264644..

Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2006. Softcover. Good Condition. Mass graves, actual skeletons in the closet, and a host of homicides steeped in bizarre clues and buried secrets - they're all in a day's work for one detective whose job begins when life ends. As a forensic anthropologist, Robert Mann listens to the stories the dead have to tell; he is the corpse whisperer.In this revealing casebook, Mann offers a portrait of a profession which is gruesome, dangerous and compelling. Read how he finally identified Jeffrey Dahmer's first victim, despite the serial killer's efforts to conceal the truth. Follow the grim dismantling of the Poughkeepsie 'House of Horrors' and join Mann in the heartbreaking task of sifting through human remains at the Pentagon crash-site on 11 September 2001. 253 pages. Illustrated with colour photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: True Crime; True Crime; ISBN: 1741148863. ISBN/EAN: 9781741148862.… Read More

Friedman Group, USA, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. A colourful exposee on the world of organised crime details the notorious actions and ostentatious lifestyles of the most dangerous criminals on the planet. 66 pages. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: True Crime; True Crime; ISBN: 0792456912. ISBN/EAN: 9780792456919. Inventory No: 258386. . 9780792456919

Ice Water Press, Australia, 2012. Softcover. As New. Whilst many infamous killers are profiled in these pages, the dark heart of this book explores the nature of evil and what motivates men, women and sometimes even children to commit the most appalling acts imaginable. It also explodes the myth of the motiveless crime and challenges the popular belief that all killers are crazy. 208 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: True Crime; True Crime; ISBN/EAN: 9781922048813. Inventory No: 261940.. 9781922048813

Picador, Australia, 2004. Softcover. Good Condition. A true story of death, grief and the law from the 2019 winner of the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. In October 1997 a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests-most of them university students-had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a massive dose of rohypnol and heroin. His girlfriend and her best friend were charged with murder. Helen Garner followed the trials in the ACT Supreme Court. Compassionate but unflinching, this is a book about how and why Joe Cinque died. It probes the gap between ethics and the law; examines the helplessness of the courts in the face of what we think of as 'evil'; and explores conscience, culpability, and the battered ideal of duty of care. 328 pages. Tanning to pages. Previous owner name has been blacked out.… Read More

Pinnacle Books, New York, 1991. Softcover. Good Condition. Describes twenty-five actual cases in which doctors, surgeons, and nurses murdered their patients, exploring the psychological forces that can change a compassionate healer into a sadistic killer. 435 pages. Pages browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: True Crime; United States; True Crime; ISBN: 1558175822. ISBN/EAN: 9781558175822. Inventory No: 258043. . 9781558175822

Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2016. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Milat - the serial killer who preyed on young hitchhikers. The backpackers - the innocent victims of a brutal murderer. Belanglo - a place that became synonymous with pure evil.It was the biggest and most complex manhunt in Australian history, an investigation that gripped a nation. Behind the many false leads and dead ends, precious clues emerged that pointed to one man.This is the story of how Ivan Milat was caught. Clive Small takes us inside the operation he led as his team painstakingly pieced together the evidence that put Milat behind bars. But questions remain. Did he act alone? Were there other victims? How much did his family know? And what of his great-nephew, who brutally killed a young man in 2010?Chilling, forensic, compassionate - this is the definitive story that could only be told by someone at the centre of the police operation. It is also a powerful argument for the investigation of more than a hundred unsolved… Read More

Virgin Books, Great Britain, 2009. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, meets Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to learn more. This is the true story of their search for--and identification of--the man they believe committed the crimes, and their chilling interview with him. And then, in a strange twist of fate, Preston and Spezi themselves become targets of the police investigation. Preston has his phone tapped, is interrogated, and told to leave the country. Spezi fares worse: he is thrown into Italy's grim Capanne prison, accused of being the Monster of Florence himself. 322 pages. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: True Crime; True Crime;… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2003. Softcover. Very Good Condition. In a "fly on the wall" report, Scotland Yard agreed that a BBC team could shadow the work of the Paedophile Unit, part of the Metropolitan Police, part of the Serious Crime Group of the Metropolitan Police. Here is the compelling story and disturbing detail behind the BBC series. Bob Long has teamed up with DCI Bob McLachlan, Head of the Paedophile Unit, to write a book which should be of interest to anyone who has any contact with children. DCI MacLachlan's expert witness describes the subtle work of the police in catching paedophiles, giving guidelines for parents and child carers to minimize the risks. 276 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: True Crime; True Crime; ISBN: 0340862130. ISBN/EAN: 9780340862131. Inventory No: 263508.. 9780340862131

Hutchinson, Great Britain, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. The famous Black Museum in New Scotland Yard contains a collection of exhibits, photographs and other items connected with the most famous crimes and criminals of the last 100 years. Fifty of these crimes, all murder case histories, are detailed 297 pages. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: True Crime; True Crime; ISBN: 0091476100. ISBN/EAN: 9780091476106. Inventory No: 261520. . 9780091476106

Pan Macmillan, Australia, 2000. Softcover. Very Good Condition. The discovery of a transsexual skeleton in a deserted mineshaft in Bonnie Doon, Victoria, in June 1996 sparked a renewed police investigation into the death of country housewife Jenny Tanner. Following the success of "Blind Justice: The True Story of the Death of Jennifer Tanner", Robin returns to the mystery. 318 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: True Crime; True Crime; ISBN: 0732910412. ISBN/EAN: 9780732910419. Inventory No: 260311. . 9780732910419

Reader's Digest, Australia, 2004. Hardcover (Printed Boards). As New/As New. 176 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: True Crime; True Crime; ISBN: 1876689757. ISBN/EAN: 9781876689759. Inventory No: 259600. . 9781876689759