True Crime from David Ford Books

Edinburgh: William Hodge, 1955 Reprint In Notable British Trials series. Hardcover book . Red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, no dustjacket. 238 pages. With b&w photos in plates, The Trial of Neville Heath charged with the murder of Mrs.Margery Gardner at the Pembridge Court hotel Notting Hill in 1946.. A near Fine copy without inscriptions… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: William Hodge, 1950 Second edition. In Notable British Trials series. Hardcover book . Red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, no dustjacket. 457 pages. With b&w photos in plates, including frontispiece, The Trial of Dr. Buck Ruxton accused of murdering his wife in Lancaster in 1936. A near Fine copy without inscriptions in a Very… Read more about this item

London, Blink Publishing, 2017 Hardcover book, First edition in dustjacket. 369 pages with illustrations. The Murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan and the corruption and cover-up that have been exposed after five police investigations and the recent enquiries which led to accusations of obstruction by the metropolitan police. A near Fine copy with slight browning to top closed page edges… Read more about this item

New York, Dorset Press, 1988 Hardcover with dustjacket, 422 pages with many illustrations . Famous murder cases of the great pathologist. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. Previous owners name and New jersey bookshop stamp to fep otherwise a clean copy with only very minor handling wear. Pictures available.

London: Michael Joseph, 1971 First edition. HB. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket reproducing Hogarth's caricature of Judges of Common Plea to front. 254pp. With 27 b&w illustrations in plates. History of judges in Britain. A Fine book in a Very Good jacket, which has light wear to edges and slight colour fade to spine. No inscriptions and not price… Read more about this item

London: Butterworth & Co, 1926-32 Second impression of first title, the other three being first editions. These four books have been sturdily bound into one volume, done for the original owner (who was known to the author) in brown cloth with gilt title to spine on leather label, and gilt title to front cover. These witty moral tales of British… Read more about this item

London: Sold by C. Etherington and G. Lister, 1782 First edition. Appears to have been published in two parts in the same year; this volume contains the two parts, but only the second title page survives, which is dated 1782. No author is credited, only the names of the witnesses at the end of each of their evidence. HB. Original… Read more about this item

Dunstable: The Book Castle, 1998 First edition.Signed by the author to named recipeint on title page. Paperback: red laminated card wrappers with line illustration to front, and photo to rear, 151pp, glued binding. Well illustrated with b&w photos and illustrations in the text throughout. Seventeen murder cases in Buckinghamshire from the early 19th century to the 1980s. The author… Read more about this item

Bodmin: Bossiney Books, 1975 First edition. Paperback: white and mauve pictorial card wrappers, glue binding. 143pp. With 16 b&w photos in plates. Introduction (12pp) and the last chapter by Colin Wilson, and chapters by 8 other writers on true murders committed in the west country in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes the case of John 'Babbacombe' Lee, and a… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1956 First edition. HB. Green cloth with silver titles, and pictorial dustjacket by Fritz Wegner. 328pp. With b&w photos in plates. A fresh look at the career of Roger Casement, his work exposing atrocities in the Congo and South America, and his support for Irish Nationalism in the First World War, which led to his… Read more about this item

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960 First edition.HB. Cloth, and pictorial dustjacket. Grey tinted top edges. 246pp. With b&w photos in plates, and map as frontispiece. New investigation of the siege of Sidney Street and the murder of a Russian on Clapham Common at the same time, and, the author concludes, links between the crimes. A Fine copy in… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: William Hodge, 1925 Second edition, revised. In Notable British Trials series. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 307pp. With b&w illustrations in plates, and folding plan at back. The Glasgow murder trial, sensational in its day, (1860s) as the Sandyford Mystery, which eventually involved the Government making an intervention. Ex-libray of the Law Courts, Nairobi (two stamps on prelims). Good+ in… Read more about this item

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1899 First edition. HB. Maroon cloth with gilt title & motif to spine, and short title to front. 480pp. Subtitled: From the Arrest of Captain Dreyfus in October 1894 to the Flight of Esterhazy in September 1898. Good+: covers rather worn with bumped edges, rubbed spine ends, small marks, some fade… Read more about this item

London: Butterworths 1970 HB, 1st ED, xi, 92pp. Dk green cloth, gilt lettering, original clear plastic dust jacket. Slight yellowing along top of page edges. A near Fine copy.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles 1974 Celebrated Trials series. An examination of the evidence. HB, 186pp, 6 plates, 1 illustration in text. From the library of Sir David Napley, solicitor (1915-1994) whose clients included the M.P. Jeremy Thorpe, Maria Aitken and the family of Roberto Calvi. With name and address label of Sir David Napley to… Read more about this item

Cambridge: at the University Press 1942 The Old Bailey Trial Series. 2 volume set. With an introduction by Sir John Pollock Bart. HB with dust jacket. Vol 1 xxiii, 275pp, frontis and 3 illustrations; vol 2 359pp, frontis and 3 illustrations. Red cloth covers, light bumping to ends, faint scuff mark to front of vol 1.… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd 1942 The story of a career. HB, xiii, 218pp, frontis of the author. From the library of Sir David Napley, solicitor (1915-1994) whose clients included the M.P. Jeremy Thorpe, Maria Aitken and the family of Roberto Calvi. Signed by Sir David Napley to front pastedown. Green cloth covers, some light browning… Read more about this item

London: Jarrolds Publishers (London) Ltd 1945 HB, 1st ED, 352pp, 15 illustrations, end paper sketch plans of Seance. Black cloth, gilt, dust jacket. One of the Old Bailey Trial Series. Edited, with a Foreword, by C E Bechhofer Roberts "Ephesian", with a Note on the Old Bailey by Helena Normanton. Minor wear to spine ends of… Read more about this item

London: Cassell, 1957 First edition. HB. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket. 269pp. With 23 b&w illustrations in text. Graves argues that Dr William Palmer, hanged as a poisoner in 1856, was innocent. Good in Fair protected jacket. Light edge bumping and dulling to covers. Foxed and browned edges, neat name to flyleaf. Jacket front good with darkened edges, small corner… Read more about this item

London: Milner and Company Ltd Containing Full Particulars of most of the Great Criminals that have been Tried in this Country during the Present Century. Small HB, 9x13cms, frontis, 384pp followed by 32pp catalogue of novels in the Cottage Library. Volume is undated but preface is dated 1868. Green cloth covers, gilt lettering and black and gilt… Read more about this item