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True Stories and True Crime.
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Serpentine
by Thomas Thompson
The true story of serial murderer Charles Sobraj
From the slopes of Everest to the backstreets of Bangkok, from Hongkong to the Taj Mahal, the towering epic of intertwining destinies, passion and murder - and the sinister, mesmerising genius of Charles Sobraj.
Stunningly handsome, brutally seductive, he began the petty crime and ended with mass murder. He was at the top of the Most Wanted
List of a dozen nations across Europe and the East. No police could catch him; no prison could hold him. And no one could escape his bizarre and terrifying web of drugs, sex, superstition and death.
Standard sized Futura paperback in good used condition. Dated 1980. Cover shows minor wear. Pages are clean and crisp and binding tight.
Weighs approx: 350gms . AU$7.50
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The Winchester Scandal
by Roderick Campbell; Brian Toohey; William Pinwill.
The Australian Federal Police couldn't protect him or solve his murder. What Happens Next??.
On the evening of 10 January 1989, Colin Winchester was shot dead in the driveway of his Canberra home. He was assistant commissioner of the Australian Federal Police.
This book tells the story of this disturbing and unfinished case. It sets out the train of events, and examines the theories and allegations, and also what should happen next.
Illustrated paperback dated 1992 by Random house. Measures 13.5cm x 20cm and is in good used condition. Is 279 pages and has a central section of photographs. Has small creases at cover edges on back cover and remainder mark on bottom text edge.
Weighs approx:3 40gms AU$5.99
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. A
classic which created the genre of
novelistic non-fiction. Capote spent 6
years exploring and writing the story of
Kansas farmer Herb Clutter, his family
and the two young killers who brutally
murdered them, an unflinching portrayal
of a comprehensible and thoroughly human
evil. Standard sized Penguin Classic pb
and in as new condition. Weighs approx:
300gms AU$9.50
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 Hoover
versus the Kennedys. The second civil
war. Christopher Cook Gilmore. Controversial,
Scandsalous,Sizzling. Not only the true story
but the whole story. Here are Kennedy's affairs
with mafia mistress Judith Campbell and
superstar Marilyn, and his friendships with
Lawson and Sinatra, Bobby's involvement with the
civil rights movement, and the growing power of
Martin Luther King...but above all hidden
homosexual J. Edgar Hoover's hatred of the men
he wanted to destroy. Why?? Weighs approx:
240gmsAU$4.50
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Legend The Secret world
of Lee Harvey Oswald by Edward Jay
Epstein.
Are the accepted facts about Oswald's life an
elaborate lie? Was this the greatest cover-up of
all times? Standard sized paperback in good used
condition. Front Cover has small nick at top
edge. Arrow paperback dated 1978. Pages are
clean and binding tight. Weighs approx:
230gms AU$4.50
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 The
Fraud by Martin Thomas. Behind the
mystery of John Friedrich, Australia's greatest
con man. With one savage pistol shot on a lonely
hill, John Friedrich's life came to an end. Who
was this man with two sides to his life?
Larger format 1991 paperback on intriguing life
of Friedrich. In good used condition, pages are
clean and still quite crisp, binding nice and
tight. Has remainder mark on bottom text edge.
Weighs approx:450gms AU$4.00
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Pickpockets Beggars and Ratcatchers by Kellow
Chesney. The Victorian underworld. How the navvy
hordes and their women terrorized entire stretches
of countryside for months at a time; how the slum
tunnels and warrens of the big cities, particularly
London, became fortresses the police could not
enter; and why country fairs became occasions of
riot and bloodshed. Fully illustrated. Hard cover
with dust wrapper in as new condition, undated.
Weighs approx: 750gms AU$12.00
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester.
Tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness
and an extraordinary friendship in the 19th century.
It is the strange story of the compiler of the first
Oxford English Dictionary and his helper: Dr Minor
of Crowthorne, who was also a homicidal lunatic,
confined to Broadmoor asylum for murder. Standard
sized Penguin paperback in as new condition. Dated
2008 re print edition. Weighs approx: 170gms AU$9.50
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Gangland International- The Mafia and other Mobs
by James Morton. The history of
organised crime from the Italian and American Mafia
to the Triads, Russian mafiya, Japanese yakuza ans
the South American drug cartels. He also examines
the Green Gang of Shanghai, N-Z Mongrel Mob, the
Dubois family in Montreal, Australian Razor Gang and
the French Zemour brothers. Compulsive, vivid and
explosive. This is the very first survey of
world-wide criminal activity. Standard sized
paperback by Warner books. Dated 2001. Illustrated
with photos, has crease on front cover, pages are
clean and still crisp and binding tight. Spine has
some creasing also. Weighs approx: 500gms
AU$7.00
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Trading Secrets by R. Foster Winans.
Seduction and scandal at the Wall Street Journal.
Here is the true story for the first time, the whole
shocking truth of how it worked, who did it, how
much they made, and how they got caught! Standard
sized p/b dated 1987. Has rem punch on front cover,
has wear on cover. Pages are quite mellow, but crisp
and clean, binding has been reglued. Fully
illustrated and in good used condition. Weighs
approx: 220gms AU$4.00
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