TRUE CRIME STORIES (3) (iii) Three by Haines, Max - 1989

Toronto: Toronto Sun Publishing, 1989. 271 pp. Personalised inscription by Max Haines on the front free endpaper. Red boards with a small beige pictorial and beige lettering on the front panel; headband. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; aside from the author's inscription, no interior markings. Sadly, Max Haines, one of the finest crime writers ever, has just passed away at the age of 86. This contains the following true crime stories: The Beauty and the Missionary; Three's a Crowd; Slaughter in New Orleans; Sam the Ladies' Man; The Hitch-hiker; Murder by Prescription; Pretty but Deadly; The Monkey Trial; 181 Days of Hell; A Question of Law; Death in the Cards; Murder of a Cop; The Perfect Family; Who Killed Dottie; Desire to Kill; Forbidden Love; Discreet but Deadly; Unlucky Win; The Last Duel; Scheming Female; Deadlocked Jury; The Breaking Point; The Oregon Trail; Mystery Boy; The Butcher of Hamburg; Love Triangle; Haystack Hanky Panky; Dirty Money; Dungeons and Dragons; In the Wrong Place; A Case of Kidnapping; Bad Medicine; The Death of John Knight III; An Innocent Man; The Heat of Passion; To Russia with Murder; Attic Joys; They Killed Their Father; A Moment of Fury; Death Farm; The Professor and the Hooker; Mercy Killing; Love on the Run; Mysterious Mail; Family Feud; Unlucky in Love; Mary Anne Cotton; An Unusual Gift; Born to Raise Hell; Cheating the Gallows; Murder or Suicide; The Bruce Curtis Case; Mississippi Burning; and Ted Bundy's Long Road.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.