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.

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+.

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

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+.

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.

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.

article in Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Spring 1998. Periodical. ”From convicted murderer to prison childcare pioneer, Smith's most infamous alumna stands as a survivor.” Article, pp. 14-19, with photos. Stock#34245x. Vg/paper.

Boston, Redding & Co., 1850. Soft Cover. 56 p.; 24 cm. Title continues: (North Grove street) on the 23d of November, 1849. Supreme judicial court, before Chief Justice Shaw, and Associate Justices Wilde, Dewey, and Metcalf. Counsel for the government, Attorney General J.H. Clifford, and George Bemis, esq. Counsel for the defence, Hon. Pliny Merrick, and E.D. Sohier, esq. Reported for Boston journal." Trial in the Supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, March 19-April 1, 1850. McDade 1062; Sabin 102329. Title is extensively restored; very good in a box by Hollis Bedell. Stock#OB764 oversize.

London, Elek, 1957. Hard Cover. 234 p.illus., 22.5 cm. Tales of gangsters, murderers, narcotics runners in post WWII France. "There are some 40.000 villains in France today." Stock #29,229. Vg/ dj good.

Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1993. Hard Cover. Bringing us close to [Mike Wayne] Jackson, his world, and his victims, Alec Wilkinson carries crime reportage to a new level in a book that combines the pace, range, andintricacy of a novel with scrupulously authentic fact as it tells a riveting story that is profoundly emblematic of American violence, with its great burden of grief.' 227 p., 21.5 cm.; pictorial dj; VG+. 31287.

NY, Random House, 1990. Hard Cover. xiii, 305 p.; 24.5 cm. In 1987 Bess Meyerson, 1945 Miss America and cultural commissioner of New York City, was forced to resign when her lover, who had been convicted of tax fraud, bribed a judge by giving a woman jurist's daughter a job in her department. This is a story of four strong Jewish women brought down by love. Stock#34214. Fine/ dj fine.