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Alone with the Devil
by Markman, Ronald, M.D. and Bosco, Dominick
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0553285203
- ISBN 13
- 9780553285208
- Seller
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Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Bantam Books a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1990. Previous Owner Markings (Name Neatly Inked to Reverse of Front Cover, "11" in Marker on Lower Edge); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Moderately Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. A SHOCKING LOOK INSIDE THE MINDS OF AMERICA'S MOST INFAMOUS KILLERS. SUB-TITLE: Famous Cases of a Courtroom Psychiatrist. COVER PHOTOS: Wide World & Bettman. CONTENTS: Prologue: Alone with the Mind of the Murderer; 1 Extramarital Mayhem 2 Don't Bother Me with the Facts, My Mind's Already Made Up 3 The Fruit of the Forbidden Tree 4 Cold-blooded Heat of Passion 5 Justice Delayed, Justice Denied? 6 The Vampire of Sacramento 7 Hearts Unblamable: Why Roman Polanski May Never Come Back--and the Manson Family Will 8 "No Further Danger to Others" 9 Kids Can Get Away with Murder These Days 10 Madness, Murder, and Motherhood; Epilogue: Men of the Cloth. SYNOPSIS: DO THE GUILTY GET AWAY WITH MURDER? Now a renowned courtroom psychiatrist reveals what he has learned in one-on-one interviews with America's most infamous murderers. As a forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Ronald Markham has examined and analyzed some of the most terrifying killers of our time--from the insane to the purely evil. Ad too often he has seen justice undone. Now in this riveting and unsettling book, he brings us face-to-face with human depravity in its most inhuman forms: CHARLES "TEX" WATSON AND LESLIE VAN HOUTEN - Two all-American kids seduced by drugs, sex, and rock 'n' roll into the murder cult of Charles Manson. LAWRENCE BITTAKER AND ORY NORRIS - The two sadistic killers whose torture murder spree in southern California left five teenage girls dead. JOHN SWEENEY - The possessive boyfriend of actress Dominique Dunne, who strangled the young Poltergeist star when she threatened to leave him. RICHARD CHASE - The notorious "Vampire of Sacramento," his uncontrollable thirst for human blood ended in some of the most heinous mutilation murders on record. NORMA JEAN ARMISTEAD - A desperate nurse who wanted to have a baby so badly she murdered a young pregnant woman and stole her unborn child from the womb. MARVIN GAY, SR. - the clergyman father who shocked the world when he shot his superstar son to death during a violent argument. Alone with the Devil takes us inside the minds of these tortured men and women to reveal the dark secrets and twisted longings that drove them to commit acts of chilling violence. Here, for the first time, are the untold stories behind some of the most shocking headlines of our lifetime--and a call to our courts to keep crimes like these from happening again. Ronald Markman, M.D. is a psychiatrist and attorney licensed in New York, California, and Virginia. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Forensic Psychiatry, and has been involved in some of the most sensational murder trials of the past twenty years. Dominick Bosco was the senior editor of Prevention magazine, and has coauthored many books, including Confessions of a Medical Heretic (with Dr. Robert Mendelsohn).. First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Fully Booked
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004211
- Title
- Alone with the Devil
- Author
- Markman, Ronald, M.D. and Bosco, Dominick
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Thus 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0553285203
- ISBN 13
- 9780553285208
- Publisher
- Bantam Books a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- True Crime,Murder
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime - Murder;
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For a good portion of the 1990's, our family was interested in the idea of entering the used book business. We are all avid readers, book lovers, and book collectors who cannot pass a bookstore without popping in. Family trips to the library and our local used bookstore were a regularity while growing up. With each of us having interests in different genres (with a little overlapping here and there), we cover a lot of bases. The thought of having a store of our own was appealing, and the hunt was on - both for stock and a location.
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
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