True Crime from

Cloudersport, PA: Knox Books, 2018. fine. Color illustrated softcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine. 217 pp. The author shatters the myth and presents a true-life portrait of the famous crime fighter who fearlessly to on Chicago mob boss Al Capone and rescued the City of Cleveland from the grip of organized crime and corruption.… Read more about this item

Port Townsend, WA: Loompanics Unlimited, 1984. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. First printing. Illustrated stiff wrappers. 138 pp. Illustrated with drawings. A tight copy, internally clean but with two small stains rear cover. A odd little work about disguises---how people recognize them, how to employ them, methods of achieving them such as natural disguises, wigs, ustaches and other… Read more about this item

Arcade Publishing, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 481 pp. with bibliography. Illustrated with photographs. In 1947, the brutal, sadistic killing of Elizabeth Short, a beautiful young woman, led to the largest manhunt in Los Angeles history and became one of the most notorious murders of the 20th century.… Read more about this item

New York: Stokes, 1929. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition (no statement as is correct for this publisher at that time). Hardcover in black cloth lettered in red. Frontispiece photographic portrait of Ashton-Wolfe and additional photographic plates throughout the text. xviii+284 pp. Rubbing and some fading to the cloth on front board and spine strip… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, 2015. First edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Hardcover. warm, lenghty inscription by the author on the title page. First printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. 367 pp. with index. Based on trial transcripts, the author's ionvestigation into the causes of wrongful convictions reveals larger patterns of incompetence, abuse and error. Evidence corrupted by suggestive eyewitness procedures, coercive… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Hardcover in black cloth lettered in yellow. 318 pp. Fine, No jacket. The "as told to" autobiography of "Lord Jim" Manes, an American who was an internationally infamous thief and con man of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among other things, Manes was a card sharp who… Read more about this item

Sparkford, UK: Sutton Publishing, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing. Fine in fne dust jacket. Hardcover. 208 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrations. The story of Montague J. Druitt, one of the most popular candidate (and to some, THE strongest candidate) to be the actual Jack The Ripper. Born into a comfortable bourgeois family and a noted cricket… Read more about this item

Sussex, UK: Wiley, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 260 pp. with glossary, index. Illustrated with photos and charts. One of the most sought after books in its field, an indepth examination of forensic work with firearms and ballistics. In cases involving the use, or suspected use, of… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. First edition. Hardback. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 495 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. Nearly half a century ago, Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people, including pregnent actress Sharon Tate. It was the culmination of a criminal career that author… Read more about this item

Arcadia Publishing, 2012. Softcover. Fine. Photographic illustrated softcovers. Fine. Signed by Mark Falzini. 127 pp. with bibliography. Profusely illustrated with photographs. A photographic history of one of the most notorious crimes of the 20th century, the kidnapping and murder of baby Charles Lindbergh, Jr. Many of the photographs found here have not been seen since the 1930s. … Read more about this item

Random House, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition (stated). Hardcover. 255 pp. Illustrated with photos. Fine but with the small Randon House red stamp bottom edge of the text block. In very good dust jacket. Scarce. The inticate story of how the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper decided to expose corruption and bribery in Chicago city government by… Read more about this item

Crown, 1980. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Hardcover. 463 pp. with index. Illustarted with photos. Fine in very good dust jacket with a couple minor flaws. Jimmy Fratianno was a "made guy" in La Cosa Nostra, a soldier, capo, and ex-boss of the Los Anfeles family, involved at the highest levels with bookmaking, gambling, union racketeering, extortion, prostitution,… Read more about this item

privately printed, 2020. Softcover. Fine. Illustrated softcovers. Fine. 233 pp. Puerto Rican-born, Brooklyn bred Angel Gonzalez grew up in the Sunset Park section. A U.S. Army veteran, hge spect his life in three professional careers --first with the U.S. Government , then in private industry, and finally with a New York State regulatory agency. This is the story… Read more about this item

New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 404 pp. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Ray/ Be blessed/ Michael Franzese/ Prov 3: 5-6". Autobiographical account by a man who took the blood oath and became a soldier in New York's Columbo crime family. Frazese, the son of a mob kingpin,… Read more about this item

New York: Touchstone, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. First ediiton, first printing. Hardcover. 263 pp. The extraordinary true story of an undercover FBI agent's year-long invetigation of the Gambino crime family. A Cuban-born American, Jack graduated from Quantico but wasn't your typical G-man, mstanding six foot four and weighing 300 pounds. But his… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in ifne dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 267 pp. Illustrated with hotos. The story of William Queen, veteran Bureau of ATF, who went undercover in 1998 to infiltrate the San Fernando Chapter of the Mongols, one of the most dangerous motorcycle gangs in America. He penetrated… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 272 pp. (with index). In this personal memoir, former NYC Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Milton Helpern gives insight into being an expert medical witness, and recalls his work on notorious criminal cases (including a confrontation with famous attorney F. Lee Bailey). He… Read more about this item

New York: NAL/ New American Library, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition, stated First Printing, January 1988 with correct number line beginning with "1". Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket with a mere hint of fade to the red spine lettering mn. 373 pp. The true, inside story of FBI agent Jos… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First edition stated. Hardcover. Map endpapers of New York City. 309 pp. Generally fine, a slightly bumped at the spine extremities. In very good, price clipped dust jacket. The true story of the exhausting investigation by two New York City detectives into a drug ring. Basis… Read more about this item

New York: Scribners, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 348 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. John Gotti, one of the most feared and certainly the flashiest mafioso in American history, became boss of the Gambino Crime Family with the brazen and very public murder of Paul Castellano in… Read more about this item