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CANNIBAL KILLERS: The History of Impossible Murders
by Martingale, Moira
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0786707038
- ISBN 13
- 9780786707034
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Carroll & Graf, NY, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. Octavo, softcover, small chip at bottom corner of cover else VG in black pictorial wraps with skull on cover. 191 pp. including index. After tracing in quick, narrative strokes the history of cannibalism back to ancient China and recounting notorious crimes like those of Sawney Bean, who consumed more than one thousand victims over a period of twenty-five years in sixteenth-century Scotland, Moira Martingale chronicles the exploits of those few, uncommon criminals who have killed for flesh in the twentieth century. Among the subjects in Martingale's gallery are Jeffrey Dahmer, the murderer of seventeen young men; Edward Gein, who resorted to cannibalism after the death of his mother and provided Alfred Hitchcock with the role model for Norman Bates in Psycho, and, most infamous of all, reputedly the worst cannibal killer in modern history, the dreaded Russian Andrei Chokatilo.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80844
- Title
- CANNIBAL KILLERS: The History of Impossible Murders
- Author
- Martingale, Moira
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0786707038
- ISBN 13
- 9780786707034
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf, NY
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1993
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Pictorial Wraps
- Pictorial wraps are color illustrated covers for paperback books. Preceding mass-market paperbacks, this format brought popular...