True Crime
REMARKABLE TRIALS AND INTERESTING MEMOIRS, OF THE MOST NOTED CRIMINALS, WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED AT THE ASSIZES, THE KING'S-BENCH BAR, GUILDHALL, &c. FOR HIGH-TREASON, MURDER, CONSPIRACY, RAPE, HIGHWAY, FELONY, BURGLARY, IMPOSITION, AND OTHER ATROCIOUS CRIMES, VILLAINIES, AND MISDEMEANOURS. FROM THE YEAR 1740, TO 1764. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR MOST MEMORABLE EXPLOITS, ADVENTURES, CONFESSIONS, AND DYING-BEHAVIOUR. In Two Volumes ...
London: Printed for W. Nicoll, at the Paper-Mill, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1765. 12mo, two volumes, pp. [1-2] [i-iii] iv-x [xi-xiv] [1] 2-336; [i-viii] [1] 2-358, full calf, all panels ruled in gold, edges speckled red. First edition. Highway robbery, piracy on the Thames, murder, rape, a midwife tried for "not doing his duty," and more. Female miscreants are well represented. Many of the cases concern conspiracy, forgery. counterfeiting, and fraud. ESTC T114036.
TAILSPIN: THE STRANGE CASE OF MAJOR CALL.
Latham, New York: British American Publishing Ltd., 2002. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed by the author. Introductory letter laid in. Non fiction book about concerning Major James A. Call and his role in the Sam Sheppard murder case.
WISCONSIN MURDERS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1958 copies printed. Nonfiction; accounts of Wisconsin homicides.
WISCONSIN MURDERS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1958 copies printed. Nonfiction; accounts of Wisconsin homicides.
TRUE TALES OF THE D.C.I.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, [1925]. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 13-343 [344-352: blank], original brown cloth, front and spine stamped in yellow. First edition. The author was an infantry Captain with the A.E.F. and the commanding officer of the Division of Criminal Investigation. From the jacket copy: "Desertions and crimes fill the pages; fascinating horrors tinge the stories. Women and liquor, petty thefts and big burglaries, murder suffered and inflicted, disguises, evil ingenuity, these are the forces encountered. Criminals with shoulder straps and without do their stuff and the Division of Criminal Investigation goes them one better."
THE DIAMOND SMUGGLERS.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Non fiction account of the world of diamond smuggling as related by 'John Blaize' (pseudonym), agent for the International Diamond Security Organization.
MURDER PLUS: TRUE CRIME STORIES FROM THE MASTERS OF DETECTIVE FICTION.
New York: Pharos Books, 1992. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. True crime stories written by some of the great mystery writers: Jim Thompson, Dashiell Hammett, Lionel White, Day Keene, Brett Halliday, Harlan Ellison and many more.
THE THIEF TAKERS.
London: Museum Press, 1958. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Account of crime prevention in England during the period 1750-1850 focusing on the "private detective."
WEIRD CRIMES AND SERVANTS OF SATAN.
[Shelburne, Ontario, Canada]: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of a series of thirteen true crime articles written for Weird Tales in the 1920s. The first group of stories are weird crimes gathered from European cases. Introduction by Peter Ruber.
MADAM LADYFINGER AND OTHER INTERESTING STORIES FROM THE FILES OF PINKERTON'S NATIONAL DETECTIVE AGENCY, INC.
[No Place, Chicago?], Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, Inc., [No date, 1948?]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. Booklet with three cases taken from the files of Pinkerton's. Also includes a list of Pinkerton's services, policies and a list of company officers and locations.
NO FRIEND FOR TRAVELLERS.
London: Robert Hale, 1959. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Account of the Indian sect of murderers the "Thugs."
HEYDAY FOR ASSASSINS.
London: Heinemann, 1958. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Assination during the late 19th-early 20th century, mostly of Nobility.