'SHE MUST HAVE KNOWN' : The Trial of Rosemary West.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean monochrome portrait photographs of Rosemary+Fred West to front and rear panels of dw/dj respectively, with green+white lettering; with negilgible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of dw/dj's spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.
Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned,but generally clean; contents bright,tight,clean and solid and sound.Minimal accidental corner creases to top corners of pp221-225 inclusive,intentional(?) reading creases to pp321.A production fault of a black ink(?) band to top 1/3rd of the following pages,partially obscuring the printed text to verso of pp265,pp269, pp281 and pp285; and similarly to recto of pp272, pp276,pp288,pp292 respectively.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xpp+1-357pp [paginated] includes foreword,13 chapters,notes and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication and contents list/table.
Frederick West cheated everybody when he hung himself on New Year's Day 1995.Was this a sign of overwhelming guilt? Was West criminally insane or merely a sexual sadist of the worst kind? Brian Masters sets out to answer these questions.
Attending the Rosemary West trial on a daily basis,Masters has come up with a penetrating study of the sexual obsession that led to the measured killing of twelve women and girls.In the wake of the horrific detail of murder,sadism and torture that has come to light in the last few months (then 1996),Masters,from his privileged courtroom vantage point,looks closely at how and why ordinary human beings were driven to serial killing of the most devious kind,and how an evil psychopath was able to ensnare so many in a web of unseeing complicity.He unravels with particular precision the legal means used to bring the whole matter to trial and weighs the evidence coolly and objectively.
Brian Masters has established his reputation as an authority on the criminal and psychopathic mind.This is highly reasoned and psychologically acute look at what has become Britain's serial-killer trial of the century.See also rja510014 for a related title of the Wests.
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