Grahame Thornton, Bookseller

Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain

Adams, Blessin: · 2024

£2.95 (€3.54 | $3.90 | ¥622)

London: Collins, 2024 1st. thus PBK 294pp. VG.

Murder and the Making of English CSI

Burney, Ian and Pemberton, Neil: · 2016

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016 2nd. imp. HBK + d/w. Index 235pp. + several b/w plates and drawings in text. VG/VG.

Murder and Mystery on Exmoor

Hurley, Jack: · 1973

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

Dulverton: Exmoor Press, 1973 3rd. ed PBK card covers. 72pp. + some b/w plates and illustrations. Corners and edges of cover scuffed, o/w good reading copy.

Blood on Their Hands: The Killing of Ann Chapman

Cottrell, Richard: · 1987

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Collins/Grafton, 1987 1st. ed. HBK + D/W. Index 229pp. + 25 b/w plates. VG/VG.

Hanged in Error

Hale, Leslie: · 1961

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1961 1st. ed. PBK. No. S196 Red/Black pictorial cover. 160 pp. Good copy.

Courtroom U.S.A. 1

Furneaux, Rupert: · 1962

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1962 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 1795 Black/Green pictorial cover. 185 pp. Bookseller's stamp on FEP. Small split head spine. O/w good copy. Describes three famous American trials.

In Suspicious Circumstances: Memories of a Northamptonshire Police Surgeon

Davies, Hugh de la Haye: · 1998

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

Newbury: Countryside Books, 1998 1st. ed. PBK. Index 122 pp. + b/w photographs throughout. As new. Multiple copies available.

Crime and the Police

Martienssen, Anthony: · 1953

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1953 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 888 Green. Index 256 pp. Slight scuffing of spine. Covers soiled/foxed. Slight page browning/foxing. O/w good copy.

Famous Trials II

Hodge, Harry: · 1948

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1948 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 634 Green. 222 pp. Small splits foot spine, scuffing. Covers lightly soiled. Page browning. O/w good copy.

Private Spies

Payne, Ronald: · 1967

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Arthur Barker, 1967 1st. ed. HBK+D/W, frayed top edge, water stained bottom back, o/w VG/G. Index 223 pp.

Hidden Evidence: Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them

Owen, David: · 2001

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: New Burlington Books, 2001 2nd. imp. PBK. 240pp. + b/w and colour plates throughout. Good copy.