Published by Souvenir Press, London, 1959

1st edition hardback in very good condition. There is a review slip lightly pasted to the front end paper and slightly foxed at the page edges. The dust wrapper is a little worn at the edges and sunned at the spine otherwise very good and unclipped. From the files of Interpol, the United Nations, and from police records in many countries, Agnew has pieced together a remarkable history. Much of his book describes the incredible adventures of the undercover agents who descended into the underworld.

119. Bravin, Jess: Squeaky: The life and times of Lynette Alice Fromme

Published by Buzz Books, New York. 1997.

1st US hardback edition in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper is also fine and unclipped.
Bravin's Squeaky effectively captures the twisted life of Lynette Fromme and in the process, not only brings to life the counterculture of the 1960s and '70s, but sheds additional light on the Manson Family phenomenon.

2321 Britton, Paul: The Jigsaw Man

1997 Bantam Press, London.

1st edition hardback in fine, as new condition. The dust wrapper is not clipped and there are no previous owner names or marks. The autobiography of Paul Britton, one of the foremost offender profilers in the world. What he searches for at the scene of a crime are not fingerprints, fibres or blood stains, he looks for the "mind trace" left behind by those responsible, the psychological characteristics that can help the police to identify and understand the nature of the perpetrator. Over the past dozen years, Britton has assisted the police in over 100 cases involving murder, rape, arson, extortion and kidnapping. Among them were the murder of Jamie Bulger on a lonely railway line in Liverpool, the abduction of baby Abbie Humphries, the brutal slaying of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common and the notorious "House of Horror" in Gloucester. He has helped to solve some of Britain's most baffling cases, and has also advised the FBI and the Russian Ministry of the Interior.

Published by Ronald Whiting & Wheaton, London. 1966.

1st edition hardback. Both book and dust wrapper are in very good condition. The book has some foxing to the top and fore edges otherwise near fine. No previous owner names or other marks. The jacket is not clipped and retains the original 30s net price to the front flap but is a little rubbed at the edges with a couple of small tears and creases at the back bottom edge. This is a humane book but not a sentimental one. Murder, John Brophy says, is a universal obsession. There must be some reason why we find it fascinating as well as horrifying, why it is so much talked about and written about and secretly thought about. This is the proposition that The Meaning of Murder sets out to examine.

FRANK COSTELLO, P.M. OF THE UNDERWORLD

1975 HODDER

HARDBACK

VERY GOOD, VERY GOOD

Published by John Long, London, 1965

Hardback 1st UK edition. Very good book and unclipped dust wrapper. Clean and unmarked with no previous owner names. The dust wrapper is only slightly worn and rubbed at the edges, folds and tips and has a small water stain at the top of the spine which is only really noticeable on the reverse. This factual, unglamorised account, by the doyen of American writers on the west, of prairie banditry deals with all the organized bands of bank and train robbers who terrorized the middle-west for a half century. From the days of the Kansas-Missouri border wars to the killing of Henry Starr, the gentleman bandit, in 1921, Mr Drago presents the authentic, documented case histories of two score and more outlaws, men who rode with William Clarke Quantrill, noted Confederate guerrilla, or whose lives were shaped by him. Frank and Jesse James; Cole Younger and his brothers; the Dalton boys; Belle Starr, the so called bandit queen; Bill Cook; the Bill Doolin gang - These are some of the horseback outlaws whose stories are told - and whose legends are shattered - in this challenging and definitive narrative, which is related with all the dramatic sweep to be expected from a vastly experienced author whose knowledge of the Old West is unrivalled.

Published by Bantam Press, London. 1991.

1st edition hardback in fine condition, there are no previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper is also fine and unclipped retaining the original £14.99 price at the front flap. "A story that is too fantastic to be fiction. "Eddy and Walden, co-authors of "The Cocaine War", tell the gripping tale of a five-year battle begun in 1985 to bring a drug kingpin to justice. Howard Marks, a Briton of intelligence and charm who specialized in transporting marijuana and hashish all over the world and in laundering drug money, travelled so extensively that he was dubbed Marco Polo. His more-than-worthy opponent was American Craig Lovato of the Drug Enforcement Agency. "

Published by Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, London. 1987

1st edition hardback in very good condition. The dust wrapper is also very good. The pages are a little browned at the edges and there is only slight sunning of the jacket. There are no previous owner names or marks. This book re-examines all the sensational details of the murders ascribed to Jack the Ripper. It investigates the roles and reliability of the policemen involved in the murder inquiry and analyzes the evidence against all the suspects--checking them against the personality patterns of other sexual serial murderers. The author, whose conclusion was endorsed by the Scotland Yard & the F.B.I., provides a convincing identification of the Ripper.

2022 FIENNES, RANULPH

The Sett

1996 Heinemann, London.

Hardback

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped.

Published by Fireside Press, London, 1949

Hardback 1st UK edition. There is a previous owner name at the front end paper otherwise the book is very good. The dust wrapper is worn with several small tears and some areas of loss but is generally good. The real story of prohibition and how the Enforcement Branch of the US Treasury smashed the Capone gangs, the New York gangs, the untouchable thieves of the HueyLong and Boss Pendergast gangs and much much more. A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the T-men and there fight against the breakdown of political morality in the US.

SCOTLAND YARD`S COCAINE CONNECTION

1990 CAPE

HARDBACK

VERY GOOD, VERY GOOD

Published by Smith Gryphon, London. 1993

1st edition hardback in very good condition. There are no previous owner names. The dust wrapper is only very slightly rubbed at the edges with some minor surface marks; it is not clipped but shows no price. Nothing has ever happened like Hungerford. The years do not lessen the shock the nation felt at the news of Michael Ryan's massacre of innocent people on the streets of this picture-postcard town. What, on Wednesday 19th August 1987, made this loner put on paramilitary kit, arm himself with a Beretta pistol, an M1 carbine and a high-velocity Kalashnikov rifle, and drive the beautiful Savernake Forest to find his first victim? Here he shot dead an ebullient, attractive mother of two young children, as they picnicked in the sunshine. Why did sixteen men and women, including Ryan's own mother, have to die on that stiflingly hot summer's day? Hungerford; One Man's Massacre is the first book on Michael Ryan and is unlikely to be displaced as the definitive account of the day man went berserk in a quiet English town.

Published by MacDonald, London, 1961

This 1st edition hardback book is in very good condition, shelf wear, browning to page edges, the book has an inscription on the front endpaper. The dust wrapper is in very good condition, rubbing to the dust wrapper edges especially spine, it has not been price clipped and still retains the 21s /-net price. Includes the cases of James Hadfield, Daniel McNaughton, John Thomas Straffen and Gunther Podola.

Published by Robert Hale, London. 1989.

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The dust wrapper is very good being slightly rippled at the top edge but with out loss or fading. Sixteen cases of premeditated murder.

Published by Doubleday, London. 1996

Hardback edition, reprint. Signed by the author on the title page otherwise fine in a fine unclipped dust wrapper. During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuana, and had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA and the Mafia. Following a worldwide operation by the Drug Enforcement Agency, he was busted and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at the Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana. He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence. Told with humour, charm and candour, Mr Nice is his own extraordinary story.

Published by Harvill Secker, London. 2006.

1st edition hardback in fine/as new condition. There are no previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. His travels took him to Jamaica and Panama in the footsteps of the Welsh buccaneer Henry Morgan; he went to Brazil looking for groups of Welsh settlers so obscure he never found them (although he did succeed in finding his musical idol Jimmy Page); and he searched among the thriving Welsh community in Patagonia for signs of Billy the Kid's half brother. Richly comic and charged with the sense of adventure that would induce an Oxford graduate to become the world's most notorious marijuana smuggler, Señor Nice is the hugely entertaining sequel to Mr Nice.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2006

1st edition hardback in fine, as new condition. The book has no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped and still retains the original £17.99 net price. 'They had not planned on beheading her. But Cynthia Garcia needed to be taught a lesson. The 44 year old single mother had committed a fatal error: Nobody disrespects the Hells Angels, especially in their own clubhouse. In their minds, "The stupid bitch" deserved to die'. Hailed as an 'American legend', Sonny Barger, the world's most famous Hells Angel, works hard to promote his gang's folk image. But the facts tell another story. The Hells Angels are America's major crime export. Their membership has spread to twenty-five countries including the UK, Australia and Holland, where they have inspired a violent subculture of bombings, shoot-outs, drugs, weapons trafficking and extortion.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BILLY McCUNE

1973 STRAIGHT ARROW BOOKS

HARDBACK

1st US EDITION. D/W IS EDGEWORN AND CHIPPED IN PLACES BUT GENERALLY VERY GOOD. THE BOOK IS Nr FINE BUT CARRIES MARKER REMAINDER MARKS TO TOP & BOTTOM EDGES. INTRODUCTION BY DANNY LYON. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS FROM DEATH-ROW.

2255 Moorhouse, Frank

Satanic Killings

2006 Allison & Busby, London.

Hardback

First edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dustwrapper is also in fine condition being unclipped and retaining the original £16.99 price at the front flap. The book appears new and unread. Detailed exploration of satanic killings around the world and the societal forces that create such killers When Satanism first began to penetrate popular culture in the sixties, through the lyrics of The Beatles and The Stones, it was intended as a harmless rebellion against conventional society. Yet, inevitably, this encouraged more radical extremes to follow, with Black and Death Metal bands becoming wide spread over the seventies. For some individuals the implications of the music were not enough.

WHO LIVE IN SHADOW

1960 W. H. ALLEN

HARDBACK

1ST UK EDITION. NEAR FINE BOOK IN A VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER. AN INSIDE VIEW OF THE PHANTASMAL WORLD OF NARCOTICS, ITS VICTIMS, RACKETEERS, AND THE POLICE OFFICERS BY THE THEN, CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

Published by Anthony Blond, London, 1967

1st edition hardback. Ex-library book with the usual associated faults but otherwise very good. The dust wrapper has small areas of wear at the tips but is otherwise fine and unclipped, 30s net price intact. The most valuable source of foreign exchange to mainland china is opium. The milky juice of papaver somniferum, the grey opium poppy, is the base of the most sinister addictive drug, heroin. The Chinese authorities connive at this $500 million (1967) export which filters through Hong Kong, Rangoon and Bangkok, by way of the gangsters, into the shaking hands of junkies and teenagers all over the world. The traffic organised and run by the Triad, The Chinese Mafia, leaves a trail of broken careers, broken lives and broken bodies as the drugs leave Hong Kong and the gold returns through Macao. Sean O'Callaghan has spent five years in the East investigating the vast international drug rings and his researches reveal a horrifying tale of hooked white slaves in the Middle East, of child addicts in Iran, of pushers in Cairo, of the traffic which makes weak men criminals and criminals rich.

2007 Pearson, John

The Cult of Violence

2001 Orion, London.

Hardback

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. The untold story of The Krays.

DONNIE BRASCO

1988 N. A. L.

HARDBACK

An unforgettable eyewitness account of how the Mafia really operated by the FBI Agent who infiltrated the mob. Fine.

Published by W H Allen & Co. The Alison Press/Secker & Warburg. 1978

1st edition hardback in very good condition. The dust wrapper is a little worn at the tips and edges but generally very good. Mr. Read wrote the book in 1978, shortly after he was contacted by an agent for the conspirators.

Published by Twiddlesmith Publishing, Yorkshire. 1997.

1st edition paperback in good condition. The cover corners and edges are a little rubbed and worn but internally very clean and tight. In 1990 John 'Mex' Megson, a member of the Druids motorcycle group, was convicted at Leeds Crown Court of the murder, at Scarborough Mere on 23rd April 1989, of Stephen Rowley. The Judge gave him the mandatory life sentence and recommended that he serve no less than 15 years. Yet John Megson was an innocent man; for two years, his father tried to persuade him to name the real killer, but he refused to break the biker's Code of Silence. In 1991 John's father asked solicitor Steve Smith to visit his son. After one meeting in Wakefield Prison a solicitor with 26 years in the legal profession was convinced that a man was serving a life sentence for a murder he had not committed, and which was later to be the subject of two BBC "Rough Justice" programmes. He was right; Megson's conviction was overturned in May 1994.

1880 SPURLING, MORRIS

A DIAMOND FELL INTO MY POCKET

1997 LITTLE BROWN

HARDBACK

1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ BOOK AND UNCLIPPED D/W. THE BOOK LEANS SLIGHTLY AND THE JACKET IS A LITTLE RUBBED AT THE EDGES. THE EXTAORDINARY STORY OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST JEWEL THIEF, 'MORRY THE HEAD', AS TOLD TO PAUL DREWITT.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1979

1st edition hardback. Both, the book and the unclipped dust wrapper are in good condition. There is a previous owner's gift inscription at the front end paper and wear to the boards' bottom edges. The book leans a little and the dust wrapper is rubbed and worn at the edges with some small areas of loss but is now protected. An intriguing exploration of the flight, capture and trial of Hitler's Deputy, Rudolf Hess during World War Two, and certain mysteries arising from his escape, imprisonment, trial and treatment post-Nuremberg, by Hugh Thomas, the British military surgeon who twice attended prisoner No. 7 in Spandau prison. Was he the "real" Rudolf Hess?

Published by University of California Press, 1999.

Large trade paperback in fine condition, 2nd printing with no previous owner names or inscriptions. 254 x 178mm 344 pages as new. Fascinating, engrossing, and at points hilarious and absurd, "Gimme Some Truth" documents the FBI surveillance of John Lennon in 1972 when the war in Vietnam was at its peak. 157 line drawings. When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the Nixon White House in 1972 about the Bureau's surveillance of John Lennon, he began by explaining that Lennon was a "former member of the Beatles singing group". When a copy of this letter arrived in response to Jon Wiener's 1981 Freedom of Information request, the entire text was withheld - along with almost 200 other pages - on the grounds that releasing it would endanger national security. The book tells the story of the author's remarkable 14-year court battle to win release of the Lennon files under the Freedom of Information Act in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court.

2335 Williams, Tony

Uncle Jack

2005 Orion, London.

Hardback

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. The dust wrapper is only very slightly rubbed at the top front edge otherwise fine. No previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. Appears unread. The true identity of Jack the Ripper is revealed.

Published by Jonathan Cape, London. 2004

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three years earlier. After a long investigation, three body snatchers were put on trial for supplying the anatomy schools of London with suspiciously fresh bodies for dissection. They later became known as The London Burkers, and their story was dubbed 'The Italian Boy' case. The furore which led directly to the passing of controversial legislation which marked the beginning of the end of body snatching in Britain.

Published by Michael Joseph, London, 1973

1st edition hardback. The condition is not great but the staining to the unclipped jacket makes it look a lot worse than it actually is. the dust wrapper is worn and badly water stained at the top and bottom edges and also down the spine. The book is a little bumped here and there with some shelf wear but internally pretty clean apart from a bit of staining at the rear endpaper. A good reading copy. William Berger, 43-year-old American actor held in Italy for eight months awaiting trial on a drugs charge, was finally acquitted at the end of March 1971, but the scandal surrounding the case was to go rumbling on with Italian politicians citing it as a glaring example of the need for judicial reform. The story of a powerful yet tragic love between the Berger's who tried to find an alternative to the isolation and exclusiveness of modern marriage.