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New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2020. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The 12th legal thriller from Turow, a current master of the genre, features 85-year-old Sandy Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with failing health and about to retire, and his old friend, Dr. Kiril Pafko, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine now charged with insider trading and murder. First edition, first printing… Read more about this item

New York: Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1894. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. Andrew Young (1802 - 1877) was something of a 19th-century, western NY prodigy, largely self-taught and a teacher himself by age 13. Young's teaching career ended at 21 when he became a merchant, then shortly later, an editor and publisher of local newspapers… Read more about this item

Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 2013. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The True Crime story of Timothy Wells, the Rochester, NY, college professor who, in 2009, murdered his wife and spent a day driving around upstate New York with her body in the trunk of his car while he looked for the perfect spot to end his own life. It… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The eleventh and next-to-last of Doctorow's novels is this fictional account of New York City's notorious eccentrics, the Collyer brothers. Homer, a lawyer, and Langley, a professional concert pianist, sons of a wealthy NYC physician, began, after the death of their mother, to withdraw from society and eventually barricaded themselves… Read more about this item

New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A True Crime account of how in 1954 two teenaged girls in New Zealand -- Honorah Parker and Juliet Hulme (known today as crime writer Anne Perry) -- murdered Parker's mother, were arrested and confessed. Their motive, which came out at their sensational trial: Parker's mother stood in the… Read more about this item

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2017. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Testimony" is Turow's tenth novel in his Kindle County legal thriller series, the first in four years. It features Bill ten Boom, former prosecutor, who at age 50 has walked out on everything that used to matter to him -- his law career, his wife, his country. But when asked… Read more about this item

New York: Ballantine Books, 2012. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The 29th novel in Kellerman's psychological thriller series featuring Los Angeles psychologist, Alex Delaware. This time, Delaware, trying to save a little girl trapped in a custody fight between a successful physician, Connie Sykes, and her sister, finds himself facing death threats and suddenly murder. First Edition, first printing… Read more about this item

Syracuse, NY: C.W. Bardeen, Publisher, 1893. Hardcover. Good Plus/Issued Without Jacket. A manual containing a multitude of facts about 1890s government at all levels in New York State. Its purpose was to provide a basic reference for each classroom on questions such as: What is a city? What officers does a city have, and how much are they… Read more about this item

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1893. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/No Jacket. Shattuck was a leader in the women's rights movement in New England in the late 19th century as well as a journalist and a writer of children's books and plays. There is a touch of irony, then, in that the work for which… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday/Random House, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The 21st stand-alone novel by the widely-acclaimed master of the legal thriller. "The Confession" features Travis Boyette, who raped and murdered a high school cheerleader and watched another man convicted for the crime. Now, nine years later, the innocent man is only days away from execution… Read more about this item

New York: New American Library, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Authored by New York Assistant District Attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum, who also worked on the Kennedy assassination investigation and the Hillside Strangler case, and Peter S. Greenberg, a nationally syndicated columnist and producer,this is the True Crime account of Charles Yukl, a gifted piano… Read more about this item

Potomac, MD: The Fox Hills Press, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A collection of essays by a lawyer who epitomized what it means to be a good lawyer and a good government lawyer in a succession of posts in Federal agencies, as a hearing examiner and an administrative law judge while still finding time… Read more about this item

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of essays from Pulitzer Prize winner and history of law scholar Levy that begins with the Ranters, a group of defiant radicals who confronted the state and repudiated moral law in 17th Century England, followed by anecdotes about Supreme Court justices; and a… Read more about this item

Boston: Beacon Press, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. In 1972, the author was appointed by the Minneapolis Branch of the American Association of University Women to direct a two-year study on sexual behavior and the legal system. The study was followed in 1975-76 by a series of workshops and symposia bringing together sex… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1974. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. Tidyman, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter of 'The French Connection' and author of the "Shaft" novels, wrote this True Crime account of one of the most unusual murder cases in the history of the U.S. criminal justice system. In 1965, Donald Lang, a young African… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Schiller's fourth True Crime book, presents a truly unusual case: a young New Jersey doctor sues Ford Motor Company for wrongful death, claiming his pregnant wife was killed by a faulty air bag in a minor accident in the family's Explorer. But Ford, after an exhaustive investigation,… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Novelist John D. MacDonald's foray into True Crime resulted in this painstaking, 656-page account of the first murder trial of Dr. Carl Coppolino in New Jersey in 1966. This story, which covers every detail of the trial from jury selection to the final verdict without… Read more about this item

New York: Atheneum, 1963. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Trade Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback; Atheneum 27; a classic, comprehensive analysis of the American legal system and its trial courts' ability to provide justice for all citizens, as appropriate today as when first published in the 1950s; First Printing of the First Atheneum Edition;… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon Books, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. As timely and relevant as it was when first published in 1968, Dorsen's analysis of the issues surrounding the Bill of Rights and the Constitution still has meaning today as Americans continue to debate and try to resolve many of the same problems; preface by… Read more about this item

New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1973. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Ace Non-Fiction 37055; Davidson, a nationally-known investigative reporter, spent six months inside the California attorney general's office as it prosecuted a variety of cases including a sensational murder, narcotics arrests, an art fraud investigation,and a bribery… Read more about this item