Search Results: True Crime from Minotavros Books

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full black cloth. xiv, 347 pp. McClelland & Stewart ARC stamp to half-title. Bruising to lower corners. Small red ink stain to fore edge of text block. A few bumps to dust jacket. Fine overall. The true story made famous by the highly acclaimed film The Thin Blue Line.

New York: Roy Publishers Inc. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Thrilling dramas of passion and violence that made headlines throughout the world and became outstanding in the annals of crime. [N.d., ca. 1955]. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. 192 p.p., [7] plates B&W photos. With 25 illustrations. Some damp staining to to boards. Foxing to edges of text block, endpapers, and sporadically throughout the text. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned at spine, worn at extremities, a few short tears and small chips, small perforation to spine, spot of wear to front cover. In this latest volume of true crime stories, Mr. Gribble has presented twenty cases of murder in which a grim adventure culminates in violence.

Toronto: Harper Collins, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Stated first edition, full number line. Quarter black cloth with black paper boards, red lettering to spine. [20] 474 p.p., + [16 p.p. B&W photos]. Dust jacket lightly bruised to spine head, else fine. In The Bandido Massacre, award-winning and bestselling author Peter Edwards tells the story of a bloody massacre of eight bikers from the Bandido motorcycle gange in the hamlet of Shedden, Ontario, as well as the arrests in 2006 to the highly publicized court case in late 2009, when all six defendants were found guilty of first-degree murder.

New York: James Pott & Co, 1901. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo [133.35mm x 203.2mm]. Two Volumes. Decorative red cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong [1867-1944], her initials stamped in gilt at foot of front covers. T.e.g. Vol. I: [6] 478 p.p. With [15] plates of illustrations, incl. frontis; Vol II:[2] 498 p.p. With [10] plates of illustrations, incl. frontis. Tissue guards. Bookplate of James Scarlet [1848--1920] to front pastedown in both vols. A prominent lawyer from Pennsylvania and Princeton graduate, who once famously represented the state in the Capitol Graft case. Light rubbing to edges, extremities. Rear corner at foot of volume two slightly bruised. Some fraying at spine ends. Trimming to pages and rough cut edges. Some sporadic smudges, else a very good copy offering a history of the construction and building of the Bastille, one of France's famous prisons as well as a discussion on prisoners, including the Man in the Iron Mask.

Winnipeg: Harlequin, 1967. Soft cover. Near Fine. 16mo. Paperback, Harlequin Series No. 289, 158pp. Light wear and small soil on rear cover, o/w near fine. "The true story of Canada's most barbaric feud.

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Books, 1970. Soft cover. Good. 4" x 7" Soft cover. 158 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos. Covers stained and creased, light wear to extremities, creasing to spine. Interior is age toned. Ownership stamp to first page and head of rear cover. The real life story of Harlem's biggest gang leader - and the amazing breakthrough that changed his life.

New York: Doubleday, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Quarter grey cloth, grey paper boards. xviii, 334 pp. Light rubbing to spine foot, fading to lettering of publisher's name. Light bumping to extremities of dust jacket. Near fine overall. Andrew Carter Thornton II had it all - ambition, money, looks, the support of Kentucky's bluegrass aristocracy - and more. On the night of September 11, 1985, when he parachuted from a Cessna 404 and crumpled onto a Tennessee driveway the world learned how much more Drew Thornton really had. Thirty-four football-sized bumdles of cocaine, automatic weapons, a bulging wallet of cash, Krugerrands, rations, vitamins, a compass, an altimeter, an almost empty address book, a membership to the Miami Jockey Club, and two sets of identification were carefully packed in his duffel. His fall represents one of the greatest schisms in the history of American law enforcement, and the story behind it is wilder than fiction.

Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Full red cloth. xi, 256 pp. B&W photos in text. Bruise to upper corner of front board. Pages are age toned. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Dust jacket is rubbed and price clipped.

New York: Regan Books, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Full black paper boards. xiv, 283 pp., [16] pp. colour photos. Remainder mark to tail edge. Dust jacket is price clipped and lightly rubbed to fore edges of flaps. Fine overall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 16mo. Brown textured and embossed cloth. 304 pp. [2] B&W plates. Light chafing to extremities. Scarce DJ is darkened to spine, a few damp stains, a few short tears.

New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo. Harvard Law School Studies in Criminology. Orig. tan cloth. xiv, 380 pp. Lacking original jacket, blurb from front flap laid in. Light bumping to spine ends, spine lightly sunned, a few minor spots of foxing to joints. Interior age toned. What happens to criminals, and why? How do they behave five, ten, fifteen years after imprisonment? In search of the answer to these crucial questions, Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck have traced from birth to middle age the lives of the men previously studied in 500 Criminal Careers and Later Criminal Careers in this new volume, where they carry the follow up through fifteen years after expiration of the sentences of the surviving men to the Massachusetts Reformatory.

London: Allen Lane, 1982. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full red cloth. xii, 370 pp. Slight bumping to spine ends. Dust jacket lightly bumped to extremities. This is the story of Hope Masters, a beautiful 31-year-old, twice divorced socialite who lived at a million-dollar address, yet qualified for food stamps - the California golden girl...with a poor appetite and a bad back. One weekend, Hope and her fiance, a young advertising executive, went to her family's ranch in the Sierras. In the middle of the night, she awoke with a gun barrel in her mouth. Her fiance was dead. The man with the gun - handsome, well-spoken - told Hope he had a Mafia contract to kill her and her children. Instead, he raped her and held her captive. And by morning he was behaving more like her lover than a killer. Even after he disappeared, she was under his spell. This is not only a murder story, but a vivid portrait of a woman caught between terribly conflicting emotions - mortal fear of the man who killed her… Read More

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2011. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. xv, 303 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos. Crease to upper rear corner, else fine.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. The true story of the brutal murders of James Donnelly and his family near Lucan, Ontario, in 1879-80. [5], 244 pp. Frontis. Author inscription from November 1962. Newspaper clipping referencing a meet-up with Orlo Miller on November 24th. Book: Sporadic pencil markings throughout. Very light foxing throughout. Edges slightly bumped. Very light browning. Book in very Good condition. Jacket: Corners torn, spine ends torn, rubbing to edges. Jacket in Very Good condition.

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Black paper boards. v, 373 pp. [8] pp. B&W photos, illustrations in text. About fine.

Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Orig. black cloth, 252pp. Illustrated throughout. Two small bumps on fore-edge and top-edge of rear board, o/w very good in d/w, some creasing and rubbing to rear jacket. In celebration of the FBI's centennial and its most famous investigations including Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, Watergate and more anecdotes from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Toronto: Harlequin Books, 1954. Soft cover. Good. 4" x 7.5" Paperback. A.E.R. 192 pp. Covers are foxed, spine creased, rubbing to extremities. Interior is age toned. Robert Fabian began as an ordinary constable, walking the regulation beat, and worked his way up through all the grades of the C.I.D. Here he reveals an enthralling picture of the C.I.D. in its day to day work, quietly but efficiently dealing with the routine burglar, the blackmailer, forger, and confidence trickster.

Bloomington, IN: Balboa Press, 2011. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo (imperial). SIGNED with inscription to title page. Soft cover. 306 pp. B&W illustrations and photos in text. Slight curling to covers, else fine. "Diana Trepkov uses her forensic art techniques to bring life to the faces of those that died without their identity. Her skilled drawings allow agencies to use her reconstructions in a public forum in order to help generate leads that can ultimately restore the name to the decedent..." -Suzi Dodt, Medico-legal death investigator (from rear cover).

London: Cassell and Company, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Blue paper boards. vi, 295 pp. Light bruising to spine ends. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar. Age toned to interior. Dust jacket is age toned, lightly edge worn, a few small chips. M. Faralicq has had years of experience in the service of the French police, and as a chief of the "Special Brigade" during the crucial times after the War, was the guiding hand in solution of some of the most famous French criminal mysteries. In this book he tells a number of amazing stories of crime and detective work, and shows once again how much more exciting is criminal work than detective fiction.

Toronto: Thomas Nelson and Sons (Canada) Limited, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Red paper boards. 190 pp. B&W photos in text. White scuffing to boards. Darkening to top edges of boards, soiling to top edge of text block. Dust jacket is age toned, rubbed to extremities, sunned to spine, generally soiled, creased to head of front cover, damp stained to lower half with wear and long open tear to lower corner of rear cover.