True Crime from Diversity Books, IOBA

Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia: Wild Dingo Press, 2014. 242pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked, albeit slightly tanned. Illustrated card wrapper mildly edgeworn. " . . . an intriguing and confronting story about injustice, the heartache of migration and the trials of integration, cultural taboos, prejudice and gender politics." 25 chapters. Book weight approx. 340g. (This book will… Read more about this item

Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: William Heinemann Australia , 1991. 256pp., plus (xxiii). Unpaginated b/white halftone plate sections. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper mildly edgeworn, minor tanning to inner surface edges. Textblock minimally edge-tanned, tiny spot to foot. In his own words, assisted by Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan, 'Codename IAGO' is the story of Munich, Germany-born John… Read more about this item

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Harper Collins, 2022. 341pp., plus 1 x 8 page colour and b/white illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm. A tiny spot to contents page, else leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper minimally edgeworn only. From the rear panel: "Talking to crooks, cops, forensic psychologists, scientists and victims, I've gone back to some of… Read more about this item

London: Phoenix, 2002. xxiii, 405pp. Book clean, square, Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper very good+. From the rear panel: "In December, 1995, Gilbert Bland was chased from a rare book room of John Hopkins University, clutching four 232-year-old maps. He turned out to be one of the greatest map thieves in history . . .… Read more about this item

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Macmillan (Pan Macmillan Australia), 2012. 313pp. Unpaginated b/white halftone plate section. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper mildly edgeworn, creased and indented. Textblock unmarked. The author, Duncan McNab, is a former detective in the NSW Police Force, and is now a journalist and multi-published author. In this gripping story of NSW… Read more about this item

New York: Regan Books, 2006. xvi, 283pp., plus 16 page colour and b/white illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm, red title there-on. Plain black boards undamaged. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket mildly edgeworn, soft crease to head of spine. "Kevin Weeks takes the reader deep inside one of the most sinister underworld conspiracies in the history of American… Read more about this item

Scoresby, VIC, Australia: The Five Mile Press, 2013. 503pp., plus 1 x 16 page, b/white illustrated section, b/white illustrations intext. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper has a tiny corner crease. From the rear panel: "The 'spectres' that stalk Western Australia's sinister shipwreck, the drowned man's face that invaded a police photograph, the… Read more about this item

Newport, N.S.W., Australia: Big Sky Publishing, 2016. xii, + 195pp. B/white halftone illustrations intext. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper has a 'Local Author' (Australian Booksellers Association) sticker affixed to front panel. From the rear panel: "Early one cold, wintry morning in late May 1942, the bullet-ridden body of Driver Roy Willis was… Read more about this item

Scoresby, VIC, Australia: The Five Mile Press, 2008. 281pp., plus 1 x 8 page b/white photographically- illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper has a corner crease to lower front panel. From the rear panel: "In 'Outside The Law 2' some of our best crime writers take you on a trip into… Read more about this item

U.S.A.: University of Nebraska Press (Bison Books), 1982. xiv, + 288pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Printed card wrapper minimally bumped only. Textblock unmarked. French philiosopher, historian and writer (Paul-) Michel Foucalt (1926-1984) collected relevant documents, police records, and the killer's memoir to compile this chilling account of Frenchman Pierre Riviere's (1815-1840) murder of his mother, 18-year-old sister,… Read more about this item

Sydney, New South Wales: HarperCollins Publishers, Australia , 2006. 390pp. Unpaginated, colour, and b/white halftone plate sections. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper nominally bumped on foredge corners. Textblock unmarked. This book is the story of an appalling multiple murder in Sydney on a cold July night in 2001, when neighbours were alerted by Sef Gonzales… Read more about this item

Seaford, Victoria, Australia: BAS Publishing, 2009. 302pp. Unpaginated colour-plate section. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Colour-illustrated card wrapper mildly edgeworn and creased. Textblock minimally bumped on upper foredge corner. "Evil, depraved, savage, vicious, sadistic and perverted . . . all these adjectives have been used to describe convicted killer Peter Norris Dupas (born Sydney, Australia 6 July,… Read more about this item

North Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Ebury Press (Random House Australia), 2016. viii, + 232pp. Unpaginated, colour and b/white halftone plate section. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper nominally edgeworn only. Textblock unmarked. This book, by Sydney, Australia journalist Mark Morri, features John Cobby, husband of murdered nurse Anita Cobby, and covers the case and the effect her… Read more about this item

Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Victory Books (Melbourne University Publishing Imprint) , 2011. 408pp. Unpaginated, colour and monochrome, illustrated section. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped on foredge corners, else very good. Textblock unmarked. Con artists and scammers exist in all shapes and forms, but they have one thing in common - to separate a victim… Read more about this item

Cremorne, Victoria, Australia: Echo Publishing, 2016. 376pp. Unpaginated b/white halftone plate section. Book clean. Spine firm, a soft reading crease there-on. Illustrated card wrapper mildly edgeworn, bumped and creased on foredge corners, plus an abraded 'name'? on plain inner front wrap. Textblock nominally bumped only. 'Forever Nine' chronicles the fatal abduction of Sydney schoolgirl Samantha Knight who seemingly vanished… Read more about this item

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Wilkinson Publishing, 2009. 96pp. Small, b/white, chapter-header b/white halftone plate portrait illustrations. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper nominally bumped on foredge corners only. Textblock unmarked. This book features the women in the lives of some of Australia's notorious 'gangsters' of the 1980s-90s, and 2000s . . . Contents include: Prelims., Introduction. Roberta… Read more about this item

Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Penguin Group/Michael Joseph, 2012. 250pp. Unpaginated, colour-plate section. Book clean and square. Spine firm, with a minor reading crease there-on. Illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped, with several blind indentations. Textblock undamaged. In January, 2010, a respectable, church-going, wealthy, Melbourne father-of-two returned from interstate by plane. Instead of returning home to his family, Herman Rockefeller carried a… Read more about this item

New York: Hachette Books, 2016. viii, + 368pp. Unpaginated, b/white halftone plate section. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper undamaged. Textblock unmarked. Opulant wealth attracts many personality types - scammers, con-artists, ambitious people - honest people, hair-trigger narcissists and many more . . . The author, Laurence Leamer, has lived in the 'rarified' exclusive community of… Read more about this item

Bilwell, Notts., U.K.: Wicked Publications, 1994. 87pp. Intext, b/white halftone plates (various sources) throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper slightly bumped and softly creased. Textblock has one formerly dog-eared leaf, else leaves unmarked. This title, 'Wicked London', has two categories: Capital Offences, and Social Life, and features some particularly gruesome murders, balanced with social life… Read more about this item

South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Echo Publishing, 2017. 259pp., plus 1 x 8 page b/white illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper minimally surface indented, store security sticker to inside rear cover. From the rear panel: "From secretive online followers to jealous ex-lovers and obsessed admirers through to random strangers and crazed criminals,… Read more about this item