Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Portrait of a Killer - Jack the Ripper Case Closed.

Cornwell, Patricia, · 2002

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Putnam, (2002). First Printing. VG Hardback in VG DJ ex-library. ex lib stamp title page, fep.

The White Mountaiin Murders.

Sherman, Steve, · 0

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

VG in VG DJ.

Songs of Innocence.

Aleas, Richard, · 2007

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Hard Case, (2007). VG PB. Three years ago Detective John Blake solved a mystery that changed his life forever, and left a women he loved dead. Now. Blake is back to investigate the apparent suicide of a beautiful college student with a double life. The secrets he uncovers ...

Unlikely Angel: the untold story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero.

Smith, Smith with Stacy Mattingly, · 2005

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Grand Rapids, MI, Zondervan, (2005). 1st printing. VG in VG DJ. In March 2005, Ashley Smith made headlines around the globe when she miraculously talked her way out of the hands of alleged. courthouse killer Brian Nichols after he took her hostage for 7 hours in her suburban A...

Death at Chappaquiddick.

Kopechne, · 1980

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Gretna, Pelican Pub Co, 1980. G PB. The real horror of the case, Mary Jo Kopechne, in the bottom an upside down car, wedged in, clasing, clutching and straining for. air and for life in the total blackness at the bottom of Poucha Pond with water creeping higher and higher. Com...

The Devil's Rooming House: the true story of America's deadliest female serial killer.

Phelps, M. William, · 2011

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Guilford, CT, Lyons, (2011). 1st PB ed. VG PB. Victorian Amy Archer-Gilligan dispatched two husbands and possibly as many as 66 others in fascinating detail. primarily in Archer's Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids, the inspiration for the play Arsenic and Old Lace. ...

Plug Uglies: a scrapbook of Boston Organized Crime.

Carr, Howie, · 2014

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

np, Frandel, LLC, (2014). VG PB. Carr tells a number of previously untold stories about the FBI bugging of the Boston Mafia's robbery. Private lives of Mob. serial killer Jimmy "The Bear" Flemmi and one of Johnny Martorano's long-forgotten victims.

Fingerprints: the origins of crime detection and the murder case that launched forensic science.

Beavan, Colin, · 2001

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

NY, Hyperion, (2001). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. It is almost impossible to imagine that prior to the 20th century there no reliable way to distinguish between the guilty. and the innocent. All that changed in 1905 when the bloody bodies of an elderly couple were discovered ...

Journey into Crime: true stories of the world's most bizarre crime.

Whitehead, Don, · 1960

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Random, (1960). 2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. The Japanese who invited 18 people to a lethal tea party, the handsome San Franciscan who robbed banks to keep his credit. rating, the Chinese secret society members who pirated a 4,551 ton ship, By the author of The FBI Story. Whitehea...

Jack the Ripper: the complete casebook.

Rumbelow, Donald. Introduction by Colin Wilson, · 1988

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Chicago, Contemporary Books, (1988). BCE. VG in G DJ. Rumbelow, a London policeman, examines each hypothesis about who Jack the Ripper was with facts, figures & background. DJ slight edge wear. small mark on back board.

The Island of Lost Maps: a true story of cartographic crime.

Harvey, Miles, · 2000

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Random, (2000). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. A Curious crime spree where scores of centuries old maps from some of the most priminent research libraries in the US & Canada. The perpetrator was the Al Capone of cartography named Gilbert Bland, an enigmatic antiques dealer f...

Manny a Criminal-Addict's Story.

Rettig, Richard P., Manual J. Torres, and Gerald R. Garrett, · 1977

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1977). Fair HB. Life history of Manny Torres from being a young Puerto Rican boy in NYC to his involvements in delinquent gang activities. and to those in the rackets and the underworld. His desperate years as a heroin addict, as a criminal, as a pri...

Rum, a Tailor's Goose and a Soap Box: three murderous affairs in the history of Hanover, Massachusetts.

Gallagher, John F., · 2010

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Baltimore, Publish America, (2010). 1st ptg. VG PB. 165 years ago the shooting deaths of two immigrant laborers by a recalcitrant, local rum dealer shocked the tranquil town of. Hanover, Massachusetts. 30 years later the manager of a hotel in the town's Four Corners Village mu...

Cracking Cases: the science of solving crimes.

Lee, Dr. Henry C. Lee with Thomas W. O'Neil, · 2002

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Amherst, NY, Prometheus Books, (2002). 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Takes reader through entire investigative process of five murder cases with world-renown forensic expert Dr. Henry Lee.

The Detectives: crime and detection in fact and fiction.

Smyth, Frank and Mykles Ludwig, · 1978

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Philadelphia, Lippincott, (1978). 1st ptg. G lg sz PB ex-library. The detective enforces society's rules and he cannot always play by them. Library markings.

True Crime Stories: cases that shocked America.

Turow, Scott, introduction by, · 2005

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

np, People Magazine, (2005). vG in VG DJ. Laci Peterson, JonBonet Ramsey, Tony Toto, Gianni Versace, Charles Stuart, Pam Smart, Robert Chambers, Jean Harris, etc.

Will to Murder: the true story behind the crimes & trials surrounding the Glensheen killings.

Feichtinger, Gail with John DeSantos & Gary Waller, · 2007

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Duluth, MN, X-Comm, (2007). 3rd ed 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. In 1977 an intruder enter Glensheen, a stately mansion along Lake Superior, stole jewelry, smothered a daughter and killed. the nurse with a candlestick. Another daughter may have gotten away with murder. Color insert on...

Scream at the Sky: five Texas murders and one man's crusade for justice.

Stowers, Carlton, · 2003

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, St. Martins, (2003). BCE. VG in VG DJ. Masterful chronicle of one man's murderous career and another man's sworn promise to deliver justice and closure to the people. of Texas. Five women would be found brutally beaten and murdered in 17 months in Wichita Falls. 14 years l...

The Cases that Haunt Us: from Jack the Ripper to JonBenet Ramsey.

Douglas, John and Mark Olshaker, · 2000

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Scribner, (2000). BCE. VG in VG DJ. The FBI's legendary mindhunter sheds light on the mysteries that won't go away.

Crimes of Passion.

Treasure Press, · 1985

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

London, Treasure Press, (1985). VG in VG DJ. Shooting of the distinguished American architect Stanford White, Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain,. the murder in the Red Barn - the killing of Maria Marten by the son of a local landowner, Edith Thompson, the subu...