Law and Criminality / True Crime

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Hill & Wang Pub, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. This is a suspenseful narrative of a very important trial and a study of the then prevailing attitudes toward sexuality parental discipline, the Army, and the division between public and private life. In April 1879, on a remote military base in Texas, Captain Andrew Geddes, a decorated Army officer of dubious moral reputation, faced a court-martial. The trial unearthed shocking tales of seduction, incest, and abduction. This happened in the post-Civil War period, when Americans were striving to define their moral codes anew. The highest figure in the United States Army, General Sherman, got involved, and made it his personal mission to see that Geddes was punished for his crimes. But what had he actually done? Geddes had accused a fellow officer, Louis Orleman, of incest with his teenage daughter Lillie. The Army quickly charged not Orleman but Geddes with "conduct unbecoming a gentleman," for his accusation had come about because Orleman was preparing to charge Geddes with attempting to seduce and abduct the same young lady. 287 pages with several pages of photographs and an index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Berkeley, CA: Univ of California Pr, 2001. First Soft Cover Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This is a riveting book that exposes the potential in each of us for acting unspeakably. John Conroy sits down with torturers from several nations and comes to understand their motivations. His compelling narrative has the tension of a novel. He takes us into a Chicago police station, two village in the West Bank, and a secret British interrogation center in Northern Ireland, illustrating the experience of the victim, the rationalizations of the torturer, and the seeming indifference of the bystander. The torture occurs in democracies that ostensibly value justice, due process, and human rights, and yet the perpetrators and their superiors escape without punishment, revealing much about the dynamics of torture. 304 pages including bibliographical notes and an index. The front cover has a few small dimples on it. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Knopf Publishing Group, 1994. 2nd Printing. Hard Bound, Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. A baseball player and a spy, he was one of the most colorful men to pursue either line of work. He played in the major leagues from 1923 through 1939 and them became a coach for the Boston Red Sox. It was not, however, as a player that berg earned his highest accolades, but as a dugout savant. A month after Pearl Harbor, the day after his father - who never approved of Berg's choice of career - died, Berg announced his departure from baseball and entered the world of diplomacy and espionage. But only now has the extent of his work for the OSS in determining Germany's atomic bomb capabilities has been revealed. The jacket is a slightly wrinkled at the spine top. 453 pages including index, 16 pages of photographs, no marks or tears. Price clipped. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. John Douglas has spanned a 25-year career with the FBI. During that time he was the pioneering special agent who brought behavior profiling and criminal investigative analysis into the modern world of crime fighting. In the process, he has pursued and confronted some of the most dangerous and vicious men in the world, monsters more evil than any who populate our worst nightmares. He has seen first hand what one human being is capable of doing to another, and it defies the imagination. Here we also get a startlingly fresh look at the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, as if John had been called in by the LAPD to profile the killer. And finaly, we hear how his experiences have shaped his views on justice and punishment. Not only do we see through the eyes of the men and women who track the most sadistic of criminals what a powerful weapon behavioral science has become, but we also get advice on how we might better keep our children, our families, and ourselves safe from harm. A bookplate is adhered to the inside of the front binding. 383 pages, including index. Price not clipped. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Broadway Books, 2003. Fifth Printing. Hard Cover. New/New. On the surface, Christa Worthington's life had the appearance of privilege and comfort. She was a descendant of prominent New Yorkers. Her sparkling journalism earned the fashion world's respect. But she had turned her back on a glamorous career and moved to the remote Cape Cod town of Truro where she had summered as a child. When she was found murdered just after New Year's Day in 2002, her toddler daughter clinging to her side, her violent death brought to the surface the many unspoken mysteries of her life. The murder is still unsolved. 406 pages, with references. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: William Morrow & Company, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/Near Fine. Photographs. NEW - On the night of Monday, May 4, 1998, in Vatican territory, the bodies of the commander of the Swiss Guard, his wife, and a young lance corporal were found in the barracks of the picturesque force historically entrusted with protecting the Pope. It was the worst bloodbath to take place in more than a century in the heart of the supreme authority of the world's one billion Roman Catholics. 4 hours later, the Vatican announced that the lance corporal, 23-year-old Cedric Tornay, had shot the couple, then committed suicide in "a fit of madness" brought on by frustration with the unit's discipline - a conclusion it reaffirmed after a 9-month inquiry. But as the author's hard-hitting expose shows, the official report was a travesty, full of suppositions, contradictions and omissions. Based on an exhaustive 3-year investigation - the first independent attempt to establish the truth - City of Secrets reveals how the Vatican, the oldest and most secretive autocracy in the world, staged an elaborate plot to obstruct justice - and hide the scandals it dares not confess. 309 pages including an index, and 16 pages of photographs. There is a 1" black remainder mark on the bottom pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Crown publishers, Inc., 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. I saw the silhouette of my father with the sun coming up behind him. And he had his hands up above his head with a rock in them." With those chilling words, a 29 year-old California woman accused her father in court of having killed her best friend 20 years ago. After wracking indecision, Eileen went public with her shocking accusation, pitting father and family against daughter in the cruel glare of national publicity. George Franklin was tried and convicted on January 29, 1991; he was sentenced to life in prison. This is the harrowing, moving story of a dreadful crime and one daughter's courageous struggle to overcome her own fears to see that justice would ultimately be served. 353 pages, including 8 pages of photographs. The binding has three small stains on the front, one on the back. The bottom corners are lightly worn. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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United Kingdom: Virgin Publishing Ltd., 2001. No Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. Stalking is on the increase. And it isn't only celebrities who become the targets of irrational and desperate individuals. Men and women with everyday jobs who lead ordinary lives can just as easily become someone else's obsession. Since John Lennon's murder in 1980 the world has recognized the danger that lies behind this insidiious and threatening behavior, but has been slow to act against it. It is only as recently as 1997 that the Protection from Harrassment Act brought stalking on to the British statute books. In this thoroughly researches, serious investigation into a disturbing phenomenon, the author interviews victims, police, psychologists - and those who 'stalk the stalkers' - to provide remarkable accounts of obsession, delusion and terror. 238 pages including notes and bibliography. Black cloth cover, 8 pages of illustrations and letters. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: William Morrow & Company, 1984. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. The binding has no wear, but has the remains of a sticker on the front. 304 pages, including an index. Photographs are included. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Edison, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Castle Books, 2002. No Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. From evidence to ex parte, learn how the prosecution and defense plan their cases. The judge, the jury, the eyewitness, the expert witness, direct examination, cross examination, grand jury, the death penalty, and more! Included are many famous cases, using a fictional narrative and real-life stories to illustrate each step of the art and craft of a murder trial. From the discovery of the body, to trial procedures and strategy, to the conviction and sentencing, this engrossing look at our legal system includes explanations of the various elements of a trial. Readers intrigued by true crime will find court documents and questionnaires from the headline-grabbing trials of O.J. Simpson, Theodore Kaczynski and so on, as well as "trials of the century," including those of Sacco and Vanzetti, Bruno Hauptmann, Dr. Sam Sheppard and others. Whether you're an arm chair attorney or a murder maven, How to Try a Murder gives everything you need to prosecute, defend, render a verdict, and pronounce sentence on the trial of the moment. 202 pages with appendices, glossary, bibliography, and index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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United Kingdom: Sutton Pub Ltd, 2001. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. The trial of Count Guide Franceschini, the head of a noble but impoverished Tuscan family, and his associates for the murder of his beautiful young wife, Pompilia, caused a sensation in seventeenth-century Rome, as arguments swelled and eddied from one side to the other. Some supported the Count's right to murder and adulterous wife; others protested her innocence. It was to be some time before the shock and brutality of the murders were forgotten. In this new examination of Pompilia's story, Derek Parker unravels a tale of duplicity, treachery and betrayal that has intrigued all who have heard of it for over three hundred years." 252 pages, including index, notes, and bibliography. The red binding is cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. First American Edition. Hard Cover. New/Near Fine. Photographs. NEW - In 1875, the beautiful widow Florence Ricardo married the handsome and successful young attorney Charles Bravo, hoping to escape the scandals of her past. As they settled into the Priory, her posh mansion outside London, the couple seemed to be living a charmed life. But Bravo proved to be a brutal and conniving man; the marriage was not happy. Then one night while preparing for bed, Bravo suddenly collapsed. Though the greatest English physicians of the era were summoned to his side, they could do nothing, and three days later he died an agonizing death. The doctors agreed that Charles Bravo had been poisoned. The investigation dominated the press for weeks, as the list of suspects grew to include Florence; her secret lover, the eminent doctor James Gully; Mrs. Cox, her longtime companion. But ultimately no murderer could be determined, and despite the efforts of numerous historians, criminologists and other writers, the case has never been definitely solved. Until now. 209 pages including an index, list of references, and 8 pages of photographs. The endpapers show the layout of the Priory. The jacket has some scuffing on the back. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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