Search Results: True Crime from The Owl at the Bridge

NY, Dutton [1986].. Hard Cover. xi, 301 p., plates; 24 cm. Film director King Vidor (1895-1982) at the end of his long life, offered a solution to Hollywood's most scandalous murder. William Desmond Taylor, 1877-1922; Stock #29,636. Vg/ dj good, worn. American entertainment, film, cinema, movies.

NY, Harper & Row, 1971. Hard Cover. xxxi, 831 p.; 22 cm. Contents: Novels of detection, crime, mystery, and espionage; Short stories, collections, anthologies, magazines, pastiches, and plays; Studies and histories of the genre, lives of writers, and the literature of Edwin Drood; True crime; Literature of Sherlock Holmes. ISBN (10): 0060102632. Stock#47833. Vg / no dj.

NY, Drake Publishers [1974, ©1972]. Hard Cover. viii, 253 p. (17 p. of photographs), illus., endpaper map; 22 cm. An interesting book in many ways: as a biography of King Edward VII's eldest son, Albert Victor, Prince Duke of Clarence and Avondale; for its insights into Victoria's court; for its revelations of English aristocratic homosexual culture; and for presenting a case that Edward Kenneth Stephen was the "Ripper". ISBN (10): 0877395815. Stock#47968. Vg / dj vg.

N.Y., Modern Library, c1926. Hard Cover. [xxvi] p. 154 p.17 cm. Wilde's bitter denunciation of Alfred Lord Douglas, his supposed friend who encouraged the lawsuit that ruined Wilde. Presented by two friens: Robert Baldwin Ross (1869-1918) who was at Wilde's death bed; and Frank Harris, 1856-1931, a staunch defender. Stock# 30,264.Good, there has been gnawing for 2.5 cm o the front hinge/ dj good, some wear, same gnawing.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1984.. Hard Cover. viii, 284 p. illus., 23.5 cm. When a young, very bright student disapperaed from, Michigan State University in 1979 Private investigator William Dear of Dallas was hired to find him. Dear's only clue were traces of the fantasy game Dungeons and Dragons. Stock #29,224. Vg/ dj good

NY, W. Morrow, ©1987 / BOMC. Hard Cover. [ix], 337, [1] p.; 21.5 cm. "Book club edition." "A true murder story, this book is based on the Main Line Murder Case in which a high school teacher was found dead in an automobile in Upper Merion, Pennsylvania, and her two children had disappeared." Stock#45314. Vg / dj vg.

The original edition is not quite so rare as the foreword and previous writers indicate. I have had one, but the paper is extremely poor and, in all copies I know, brittle. Porter, the Police reporter for the Fall River Globe, concluded that it was Lizzie Borden (1860-1927) who administered the fatal whacks of the axe to her parents. Stock#26574/h. Fine/ not published with a dj.

Boston, Little, Brown [1990].. Hard Cover. 289 p., index, photos; 24 cm. Tells how John Gotti, a low-level hood, managed to take control of the Gambino branch of the Mafia. Stock# 37,100. Vg/ dj; vg. American history, Mafia, crime, Italian-Americans, biography.

NY, World, 1971. Hard Cover. xv, 490 p., illus., ports.; 22 cm. "Creates a portrait of everyday life within the Mafia world by focusing on three generations of the Bonanno family." Stock#47022. Vg, gift inscription / dj good+.

Boston, Little, Brown, 1983. Hard Cover. xvi, 300 p., [16] p. of plates; 24 cm. Torch singer Libby Holman (born Elsbeth Holzman) was at the top of the charts when she married tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds. His shooting death in 1932 was ruled a suicide, but Libby never recovered her former glory. Stock#30805. Vg/ no dj.

NY, Free Press, ©1996. Hard Cover. xiii, 254 p., [8] p. of plates, illus.; 22 cm. "Kasper Hauser turned up in Nuremberg in 1828 when he was sixteen, after being kept in a dungeon most of his life. Hauser, barely able to talk or walk, was taken in by Feuerbach. Masson looks at who Hauser was and what his case tells us about abused children." ISBN (10): 0684822962. Vg / dj vg. Stock#47030.

N.Y., Random House, 1994. Hard Cover. ”The characters in this book are real, but it bears mentioning that I have used pseudonyms for a number of them in order to protect their privacy. Though this is a work of nonfiction, I have taken certain storytelling liberties” regarding a 1981 murder (or self -defence) in the Georgia city. 100732. 388 p.; Vg/vg.

N.Y., Weidenfeld & Weidenfeld, 1988. Hard Cover. x, 458 p. illus., 24.5 cm. In October, 1985, a Mormon rare book dealer, Mark Hoffman, murdered two people in Salt Lake City in order to distract his creditors. An amazing story. Stock #29,075x. Fine/ dj fine

Garden City Pub. Co. [1926]. Hard Cover. [vi], 265 p., illus.; 21 cm. Title continues: who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England: with speeches, confessions, and last exclamations of sufferers." "Knapp and Baldwin’s ’Newgate calendar’ from which the following selection is taken... was based primarily on the Sessions’ papers which recorded the proceedings at the Old Bailey, but much information was drawn from their sources, notably the records occasionally made by the prison chaplains"--Introd., p. 7. Stock#46326. Good+, owner stamp, spine sunned.

N.Y., Doubleday,1968. Hard Cover. xii, 656 p.21.5 cm. Detailed study of a 1966 New Jersey murder trial. It is the first book which has examined all the tactical and strategic and human ingedients of our adversary system of criminal justice. Stock #29,222. Vg/ good+.

NY, St. Martin's Press, 1997. Hard Cover. xii, 274 p. ; 25 cm. Gerry Spence, a successful trial lawyer, was a commentato on the O.J.Simpson murder trial for NBC. This book is most interesting in his extended comments on the nature of American law, of trials, juries, the media and how the murder trial was mismanaged. Not until chapters 15 and 16 is there new information on tthe case. ISBN (10): 0312180098. Stock# 46,824. Vg / dj vg.

N.Y., Blue Heron Press, 1953. Hard Cover. 254 p. 21 cm. Fourth printing, Sept, 1953. Novelistic treatment of the trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo for mudering two guards in 1920. Stock# 30,004. Vg/ dj vg.

Salt Lake City, UT, Signature, 1988 . First Edition. Hard Cover. xiii, 556 p. illus. 23.5 cm. Mormon bookseller Mark Hoffman forged documents, at first mormon related ones, then branched out to other historical fields. When trapped in a phony deal, he killed two people--just to deflect his puruers. This is the best--and the hardest on the Mormons--of the four books I have read. Stock #29,225. Vg/ dj vg.

NY, Doubleday, ©2011. Hard Cover. 308 p.; 25 cm. "In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASA’s precious moon rocks. With the help of his girlfriend and another female cohort, both NASA interns, Roberts successfully stole the rocks. However, selling the invaluable stones proved to be Roberts’ downfall." ISBN (10): 0385533926. Stock#46836. Vg / no dj.

N.Y., Doubleday, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. xii, 403 p. illus. 24 cm. On domesyic violence in the Gilmore family and how it turned Gary Gilmore into a murderer. First edition, so stated. Stock #29,019. Vg/ dj transparanr plastic.