Search Results: Law Enforcement & True Crime from E Ridge fine Books

Springfield Illinois: Charles C. Thomas. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth. Pp. xvliii, 371: Illustrations, photographs. Index. End wear and corner bumps else a clean, tightly bound copy. The editors, along with 15 outstanding contributors, comprehensively explore and provide an overview of the principles behind the interpretation of skeletal blunt force trauma. "This volume is designed to serve as an overview of the principles behind interpretation of skeletal blunt force trauma. It is intended for those forensic anthropologists confronting human skeletal material, whether from archaeological or forensic contexts which requires analysis of traumatic defects. While relying on clinical reports in large part, it is designed for those dealing with dry bone. Survivability of injuries and morbidity is rarely mentioned and treatment ignored. Rather, the emphasis is first on documentation and second on interpretation. At a second level,… Read More

Riverside, New Jersey: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0671679473 . Clean bright copy. ; DJ in Mylar cover. Very tight, clean copy. McGinniss recounts the terrible events of July 25, 1988 when Lieth Von Stein was fatally stabbed and his wife Bonnie severely injured. Suspicion quickly focused on Chris, their son, and his friends, college students immersed in a world of drugs, alcohol, and the game Dungeons and Dragons. The straightforward account focuses on Chris and his friends, particularly James Upchurch III, who was found guilty of the actual murder, McGinnis tells the story from Bonnie's perspective, portraying a widow who relentlessly pursues the truth about the crime while acting also as a loving mother, unwilling to accept the truth about her son's involvement. In a book that's more a psychodrama than a detective story, McGinniss has drawn a riveting portrait of parental devotion that flies in the face of the truth. His… Read More

Carlton Publishing Group. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 1842221612 . F/VG dj has edge wear. History and Social Science>Crime>Forensics and Evidence. ; 9.54 X 6.30 X 1.30 inches; 288 pp pages .

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0374135533 . Red quarter cloth over black board. Handsome copy with some top edge soil else FINE. Pp. xii, [3], 4-369 [371-photograph credits]. Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. "Eventually the government in Athens produced a suspect, Salonika journalist Gregory Slaktopoulos, whose confession led to his trial and conviction and placed the blame for the murder squarely on the Communists. Marton's captivating, solidly researched inquiry presents three major arguments. First, she contends, the confession, obtained under torture, was false. Second, Polk, an outspoken critic of the royalist regime, probably doomed himself by threatening to expose its corruption. Third, investigators, including Donovan, conspired to cover up rightist sanction of the murder. The royalist regime, she concludes, in fact arranged Polk's death."'--Publishers Weekly, 1990. ; 9.40 X… Read More

Old Tappan, New Jersey: Free Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 0743204158 . Clean bright copy. ; 1st printing, red board w blue spine, decorated end pages, 276 pp, illus w b/w photos, indexed; DJ clean, shelf wear, flaps creased at corners, not price clipped. From the flap: The Pretender is filled with countless revelations from business associates and former lovers, may of whom were interviewed for the first time for this book. What finally makes (this book) so compelling is that it is a snapshot of a peculiar movement in business history. ... Martin Frankel is the quintessential criminal of the millionaire-a-minute nineties. Near Fine; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Skyhorse Publishing. Very Good. 2009. First Printing. Softcover. 1602396418 . Trade paperback In VG condition ; 7.40 X 5 X 0.70 inches; 208 pp pages .

Scranton, Pennsylvania: W W Norton & Co. Inc.. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0393029190 . Clean bright copy. ; W W Norton & Co. Inc. , Scranton, Pennsylvania, First Edition, 1st printing Bright blue textured paper w/navy cloth spine, edge sunning discoloration on both ends of book, Fine DJ in Mylar bright and clean, cover, 574 pages, written by the author who wrote Helter Skelter. From the flap: An extraordinary complex and puzzling true crime story. It draws together the hundreds of conflicting details of the mystery and reconstructs what really happened when four people found hell in a tropical paradise. Who was killed? Who did it? ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .