The Blooding by Wambaugh, Joseph - 1989

Bantam Books. Good. 1989. Paperback. The spine and both covers, next to the spine, are creased from reading. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages and binding are tight. All three page edges are yellow stained. The covers have light scuffing from shelf wear. The tip of the lower right corner is creased and there is a white colored spot on the first book review at the top of the back cover. Two unnumbered pages had the top corner bent over. Non-fiction. There is a list of numbers written up-side down in the blank area of the last page. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 390 pages; Here is Wambaugh's most mesmerizing book to date: the haunting and shocking account of two near-perfect crimes in a quiet English village, unravelled by the headline-making discovery that is revolutionizing crime detection--"genetic finger-printing. " 15 year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found near the English villiage of Narborough, the case remains unsolved. Three years later Dawn ashford is killed under identical circumstances only a stone's throw from where Lynda was killed. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding (getting samples of the blood for DNA testing) of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found. Will combine shipping on more than one book. .