MY STRANGEST CASE, by Police Chiefs of the World
by Singer, Kurt (ed.)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good to Very Good
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
Garden City: Crime Club/Doubleday, 1958. Book. Illus. by Tony Palladihno (dust jacket illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. 1st US edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From a cat burglar in Honolulu to an Australian wife-murderer (nine wives in all), each of 18 law-enforcement officers recounts the strangest case of his career. Included are Frederick Cherrill (ex-chief superintendent of Scotland Yard) J. Edgar Hoover (director, F.B.I.), Mike Gier (ex-police chief of three western Canadian cities). Also contains accounts of crimes from Czechoslovakia, Japan, the U.S.S.R., Germany, Ecuador, and so on. Grey cloth, 192 pages. Mild edgewear, mild wear to corners/spine ends, off-setting to end papers, tanning, in rubbed dust jacket w/moderate edgewear, some yellowing, short edge tears, a bit of chipping to bottom edge of front flap/corners/spine ends..
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- Bookseller
- Augustine Funnell Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009346
- Title
- MY STRANGEST CASE, by Police Chiefs of the World
- Author
- Singer, Kurt (ed.)
- Illustrator
- Tony Palladihno (dust jacket illustration)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good to Very Good
- Edition
- 1st US edition.
- Publisher
- Crime Club/Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- KURT SINGER, FBI, J. EDGAR HOOVER, FREDERICK CHERRILL, SCOTLAND YARD, MIKE GIER, POLICE CHIEFS, CRIME, CRIMINALS, MURDER, MURDERERS, THIEVES, CAT BURGLARS, HONOLULU, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, UNITED STATES, JAPAN, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, U.S.S.R., LAW ENFORCEMENT, TRUE
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