Crime from Crabtree's Collection Old Books

NY: Putnam. VG Hardback in VG DJ ex-library. (2002). First Printing. ex lib stamp title page, fep. .

NY: Hard Case. VG PB. (2007). Three years ago Detective John Blake solved a mystery that changed his life forever, and left a women he loved dead. Now . Blake is back to investigate the apparent suicide of a beautiful college student with a double life. The secrets he uncovers could blow the lid off NYC's sex trade, if… Read more about this item

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. VG in VG DJ. (2005). 1st printing. In March 2005, Ashley Smith made headlines around the globe when she miraculously talked her way out of the hands of alleged . courthouse killer Brian Nichols after he took her hostage for 7 hours in her suburban Atlanta apartment. In this moving account she miraculously talked her… Read more about this item

Guilford, CT: Lyons. VG PB. (2011). 1st PB ed. Victorian Amy Archer-Gilligan dispatched two husbands and possibly as many as 66 others in fascinating detail. . primarily in Archer's Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids, the inspiration for the play Arsenic and Old Lace. Phelps is the leading authority of the female murderer. .

np: Frandel, LLC. VG PB. (2014). Carr tells a number of previously untold stories about the FBI bugging of the Boston Mafia's robbery. Private lives of Mob . serial killer Jimmy "The Bear" Flemmi and one of Johnny Martorano's long-forgotten victims. .

Gretna: Pelican Pub Co. G PB. 1980. The real horror of the case, Mary Jo Kopechne, in the bottom an upside down car, wedged in, clasing, clutching and straining for . air and for life in the total blackness at the bottom of Poucha Pond with water creeping higher and higher. Completely terrified, she waited for help from Senator… Read more about this item

NY: Random. VG in G DJ. (1960). 2nd ptg. The Japanese who invited 18 people to a lethal tea party, the handsome San Franciscan who robbed banks to keep his credit . rating, the Chinese secret society members who pirated a 4,551 ton ship, By the author of The FBI Story. Whitehead has been a reporter and writer for… Read more about this item

NY: Hyperion. VG in VG DJ. (2001). 1st ed 1st ptg. It is almost impossible to imagine that prior to the 20th century there no reliable way to distinguish between the guilty . and the innocent. All that changed in 1905 when the bloody bodies of an elderly couple were discovered in their shop. A solitary finerprint was… Read more about this item

Chicago: Contemporary Books. VG in G DJ. (1988). BCE. Rumbelow, a London policeman, examines each hypothesis about who Jack the Ripper was with facts, figures & background. . DJ slight edge wear. small mark on back board. .

NY: Random. VG in VG DJ. (2000). 1st ed 2nd ptg. A Curious crime spree where scores of centuries old maps from some of the most priminent research libraries in the US & Canada . The perpetrator was the Al Capone of cartography named Gilbert Bland, an enigmatic antiques dealer from south Florida whose cross country slash and dah oeration… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fair HB. (1977). Life history of Manny Torres from being a young Puerto Rican boy in NYC to his involvements in delinquent gang activities . and to those in the rackets and the underworld. His desperate years as a heroin addict, as a criminal, as a prison inmate, and as a parolee discussed in an unusually… Read more about this item

Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. VG in VG DJ. (2002). 2nd ptg. Takes reader through entire investigative process of five murder cases with world-renown forensic expert Dr. Henry Lee. .

Baltimore: Publish America. VG PB. (2010). 1st ptg. 165 years ago the shooting deaths of two immigrant laborers by a recalcitrant, local rum dealer shocked the tranquil town of . Hanover, Massachusetts. 30 years later the manager of a hotel in the town's Four Corners Village murdered a woman in his employ. Three decades later an umpulsive young… Read more about this item

NY: Everest House Pubs. G in G DJ ex-library. (1981). Tom Adams painted the first Christie cover in 1962 for A Murder Is Announced and since then his paintings have become one of the . best known series of paperback covers all over the world. Over 90 of his individual cover paintings are reproduced here, accompanied by perceptive and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lippincott. G lg sz PB ex-library. (1978). 1st ptg. The detective enforces society's rules and he cannot always play by them. Library markings .

np: People Magazine. vG in VG DJ. (2005). Laci Peterson, JonBonet Ramsey, Tony Toto, Gianni Versace, Charles Stuart, Pam Smart, Robert Chambers, Jean Harris, etc. .

Duluth, MN: X-Comm. VG lg sz PB. (2007). 3rd ed 1st ptg. In 1977 an intruder enter Glensheen, a stately mansion along Lake Superior, stole jewelry, smothered a daughter and killed . the nurse with a candlestick. Another daughter may have gotten away with murder. Color insert on Johon DeSanto district judge in St. Louis. Owner name front… Read more about this item

NY: St. Martins. VG in VG DJ. (2003). BCE. Masterful chronicle of one man's murderous career and another man's sworn promise to deliver justice and closure to the people . of Texas. Five women would be found brutally beaten and murdered in 17 months in Wichita Falls. 14 years later an investigator assigned to the cold case came… Read more about this item

NY: Scribner. VG in VG DJ. (2000). BCE. The FBI's legendary mindhunter sheds light on the mysteries that won't go away. .

London: Treasure Press. VG in VG DJ. (1985). Shooting of the distinguished American architect Stanford White, Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, . the murder in the Red Barn - the killing of Maria Marten by the son of a local landowner, Edith Thompson, the suburban housewife whose passion led to her husband's death in a… Read more about this item