Resultados de búsqueda: True Crime / Trials from Goldring Books

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 and a pillar of the community. The book tells of the Rabbi who fell in love with her and his eulogy at her funeral was also a passionate memory of a lover now gone, Anita's husband, who had pledged his home to help secure the temple financing and who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole, the one million dollar temple building fund spent without a single brick to show for it and a big money divorce suit involving millions of dollars' worth of community property. The case was ultimately cracked by a Columbo - like detective. 16 pages of photographs. 106. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over… Leer más

Newbury, Berkshire: Countryside Books, 1991. A Fine unmarked copy. The policeman author looks at horrid crimes resulting in violent death which took place in the county from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, from the murder of maidens by an evil knight in Barton Seagrave, the murder of a woman in 1850, purportedly by the local butcher, to more modern crimes. 51. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Bantam, 2000. First edition, First printing. A Very Good + unmarked copy with light age fading to page edges with Very Good + dustjacket. The author was a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist, adviser to the Chief Police Officers' Crime Committee and currently teaches. A companion volume to his previous 'The Jigsaw Man', he provides insight into the process of unlocking and deciphering the truth, insight into the complex organism - the human mind, full of fascinating and disturbing true cases. *** NOT EX LIB *** C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Cassell, 1975. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked with VG+ dustjacket. Chronology, index and 45 illustrations. The cause celebre of the nineteenth century resulting in mass protests in Europe and America and Zola's famous 'J'Accuse'. The Dreyfus Affair began with the persecution of the French Army's most promising Jewish officer, and caused the downfall of a government, raising anti-semitism to a national level. **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** **** NOT EX LIB **** 311. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Headline, 1995. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. An engrossing insight into the world of the outstanding expertise of scientists with numerous real-life cases presented which were solved on the basis of forensic medical evidence. C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 individual squads as they work, following them through the stages of planning, surveillance, arrests and, where successful, the charging of suspects. Ranging from Special Branch and Crime Operations to the Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Group, it provides a unique and comprehensive insight into the workings of the police in all its guises. 29 illustrations. B2E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 current time. Illustrated with photographs. C3B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 of global capitalism, the author follows a trail of dirty money as it moves from the streets of Manchester and Karachi, Chicago and Dubai, via the Channel Islands, to the beaches of Antigua, the Caymans and the Pacific. A path that leads ultimately to the dealing rooms of New York, the vaults of Zurich and the plushest boardrooms of the City of London. 16. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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, describing in detail her investigations, her interviews with informants, following a trail that led inexorably to the attempt upon the life of the Pope in May 1981, the arrest of Mehmet Ali Agca, and beyond that to the Bulgarian and KGB connections. **** NOT EX LIB **** 16. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 huge shockwaves in the places where he is still venerated. One of the authors is a direct dscendant of the killer and although he did not set out to find Jack the Ripper the evidence discovered whilst researching his ancestor is incontrovertible. 22 illustrations and a genealogical chart. D4B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 among her fellow officers for having the highest arrest record, it is an astonishing tale of her triumph in pursuit of her goal and of the violent attacks and psychological trauma she survived on the way. 14 illustrations. *** NOT EX LIB *** 21. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.