The FBI's Most Famous Cases Hardcover - 1965

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1965. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. xi, [1], 242, [2] pages. Contains an Introduction by J. Edgar Hoover. Illustrations appear between pages 112-113. Bookplate inside the front cover personalized to Richard and Barbara Mullens. Inscribed by the author; inscription reads "To Rich & Barbara, My Far Out Cousin. All Best, Andy." Some soiling to dust jacket and several tears and chips. Bookplate of previous owner pasted inside front board. Topics covered include Crime Most Vile, Bandits, Ltd., Cloak and Rusty Dagger, Dark Blue Yonder, and Civil Rights and Wrongs. Also includes Afterword by J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Agents Killed in Line of Duty, FBI Directors and Attorneys General Since the Founding of the FBI in 1908, and an Index. Andrew F. Tully Jr. (October 24, 1914 - September 27, 1993) was an American war reporter, writer and columnist. He wrote some 18 fiction and non-fiction books, translated in multiple languages. As a war reporter for the Boston Traveler, he was one of the few American journalists to enter Berlin with the Russians in April 1945. He wrote the column Capital Fare from 1961 until 1987. The author recounts in exciting detail twenty-one of the FBI's great cases. J. Edgar Hoover not only introduces the whole book but has a special word to say about each case. In the Afterword, J. Edgar Hoover advises all citizens how best to guard against crime, and to cooperate with the law. Derived from a Kirkus review: Tully discusses several of the better-known investigations by the FBI since WWII, and also flips through files on Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly and German fifth columnists. Underlined is the fact that the FBI is an investigatory agency rather than a police force. J. Edgar Hoover emerges as our most dedicated spy-trapper. Among the newer entries are the Frank Sinatra, Jr. kidnapping, the murders of Viola Liuozzo and other civil rights victims, the activities of the Klan, and Southern mayhem generally. Also studied are bank robbers, hijackers and people who blow up airplanes for insurance. Tully manages to get at the motives of his criminals, but his style is noteworthy in its tough-guy brusqueness.