True Crime
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Select Trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, for Murder, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, Bigamy, and other Offences.
$2,000.00 Add to cartNo author
London: John Applebee for George Strahan, et al., 1742.
To which are added, Genuine Accounts of the Lives, Behaviour, Confessions and Dying Speeches of the most eminent Convicts. Rare complete set of this collection of 18th century British crimes with explicit descriptions of crimes, trials, and punishments. Therein are numerous accounts of sodomy including that the case of one of the most famous of London’s gay meeting spots of the time, Clap’s molly house, being the coffee house of Margaret Clap AKA Mother Clap. “Margaret Clap, for keeping a Sodomitical House, July, 1726. MARGARET CLAP was indicted for keeping a disorderly house, in which she procured and encouraged Persons to commit Sodomy, December 10, 1725, and before and after. Samuel Stevens. On Sunday Night, the 14th of November last, I went ot the Prisoner’s House in Field-lane, in Holburn, where I found between 40 and 50 Men making Love to one another, as they call’d it. Sometimes they would sit in one another’s Laps, kissing in a lewd Manner and using their Hand indecently. Then they would get up, Dance and make Curtsies, and mimick the Voices of Women. ‘ I, Fie, Sir ! – Pray, Sir, – Dear, Sir, – Lord, how can you serve me so? – I swear I’ll cry out. – You’re a wicked Devil, – and your’e a bold Face. – Eh ! ye little dear Toad ! Come, buss ! -‘ Then they’d hug, and play, and toy, and go out by Couples into another Room on the same Floor, to be married, as they call’d it…” (vol. III, pp. 37) and so on and so forth are similar and many other crimes told, such as the murderer Sarah Malcolm (who was sketched by Hogarth), Catherine Hayes and her accomplices, the murderer poet Richard Savage (as described in Samuel Johnson’s Life of Savage), the thief John Jack Sheppard, and the sodomy trial of Charles Hitchen. -
The Ghost of Ludwig Gertsch
$50.00 Add to cartSD Harvey
Sydney: MacMillan, 2000.
“On 19 October, 1990, Ludwig Gertsch was murdered – horribly – in his lover’s bedroom. No-one has ever been charged. Gertsch left behind a multimillion-dollar fortune built from gay saunas, nightclubs, black money and dark deeds. Within three years, every last cent was gone. Now, ten years after the murder, The Ghost of Ludwig Gertsch throws dramatic new light on the case. En route, it takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through parts of Sydney usually kept secret – a strange, fascination world where the belle monde meets the demi-monde and nothing is as it seems.” (from blurb) -
Murder by Witchcraft
$80.00 Add to cartDonald McCormick
London: Arrow Books, 1969.
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Mr. X: Police Informer
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Third Printing.
18cm x 11cm. xiv, 441 pages, [8] pages of black and white illustratoins. Illustrated wrappers.
Autobiography of police informer, Brian Donald Latch. An eye into the Melbourne underworld of the 1960s and 1970s.
Unread, but with moderate shelf wear, a small price sticker rub to wrappers upper panel, and a gift inscription. Good Condition. -
I Know Who Killed Betty Shanks
$40.00 Add to cartTed Duhs
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2022.
Queensland’s oldest cold case. The third edition reveals Betty’s secret life as documented in an ASIO file. -
Who Killed Leanne Holland?
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Second Edition.
23.5cm x 15.5cm. 232 pages, [8] pages of colour illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
One girl’s murder and one man’s injustice.
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King’s Don’t Mean a Thing: The John Knight Murder Case
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Reprint.
17.5cm x 10.5cm. 211 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor creasing to spine and wrappers. Tanning. Previous owner’s and bookseller’s stamp. Good Condition. -
Whitewash: Pablo Escobar and the Cocaine Wars
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First Edition.
24cm x 16cm. viii, 344 pages. Black cloth, white lettering, pictorial jacket.
Foxing. Stain to tail. Tear with tape repair to jacket tail. Good Condition. -
Under the Lino: The Mystery, The History, The Community
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First Edition.
23cm x 15cm. 415 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor creasing to wrappers. Very minor tanning. Good Condition. -
We Are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999
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First Edition.
Book is in Very Good condition, by which we mean it has light marks of age and/or wear from light handling, but is still a desirable copy. Very Good Condition. -
The Newgate Calendar 3: Wherein Are Related The Exploits of Murderers, Ravishers and Rogues
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Third Printing.
Book is in Good condition, by which we mean it has marks of age and is well worn from handling, but is still intact and good for reading. Good Condition. -
Under the Lino: The Mystery, The History, The Community
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First Edition. Signed by Author
23cm x 15cm. 415 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Very minor general wear. Near Fine Condition. -
I Know Who Killed Betty Shanks
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Second Edition.
23cm x 15cm. xviii, 416 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Second edition containing 12 additional chapters with new evidence.
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Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand
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First Edition.
23cm x 16.5cm. xii, 332 pages, 40 pages of illustrations, some colour. Pictorial wrappers.
Very minor insect damage to top edge. Near Fine Condition. -
The Ghost of Ludwig Gertsch
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First Edition.
23cm x 15cm. xiii, 413 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
“On 19 October, 1990, Ludwig Gertsch was murdered – horribly – in his lover’s bedroom. No-one has ever been charged. Gertsch left behind a multimillion-dollar fortune built from gay saunas, nightclubs, black money and dark deeds. Within three years, every last cent was gone. Now, ten years after the murder, The Ghost of Ludwig Gertsch throws dramatic new light on the case. En route, it takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through parts of Sydney usually kept secret – a strange, fascination world where the belle monde meets the demi-monde and nothing is as it seems.” (from blurb)
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Dying For The Truth: Undercover Inside the Mexican Drug War
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Mass Murder in Houston
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First Edition.
21cm x 14cm. 160 pages, black and white illustrations. Lettered wrappers.
“27 Youths Slain in Bizarre Sex Rituals.” The story of American serial killer Dean Corll also known as the Candy Man and the Pied Piper.
Creasing to spine, minor chipping to crown. Tanning to wrappers, minor to interior. Foxing to top edge. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
A Piece of Paper
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First Edition.
Light soiling/marks/foxing to outside edges, endpapers, occasionally throughout. Good Condition. -
The Confait Confessions
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 13.5cm. 144 pages, black and white illustrations, map. Pictorial wrappers.
The story of a trial for the murder of Maxwell Confait, a homosexual transvestite, in Britain that led to questions being raised about the operation of the criminal justice system, especially the role of police and the nature of evidence.
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The Making of a Serial Killer: The Real Story of the Gainesville Murders in the Killer’s Own Words
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First Edition.
28cm x 21.5cm. [viii], 202 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor creasing to wrappers. Minor foxing, moderate to top edge. Good Condition. -
Goodbye Lizzie Bordon
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Blackguards and Scoundrels of Colonial Queensland: True Stories of Crime, Passion and Punishment
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25cm x 18cm. [xvi], 238 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Ex-QUT Library, stamps and sticker. Minor general wear. Good Condition (ex-library). -
Jacks and Jokers
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Reprint. Inscribed by Author
23cm x 15cm. 466 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
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Blackguards and Scoundrels of Colonial Queensland: True Stories of Crime, Passion and Punishment
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Book is in Near Fine condition, by which we mean almost as if in its original new condition, but containing very slight marks of age and/or wear from light handling. Near Fine Condition. -
Outlaws In Babylon: Shocking true adventures on America’s marijuana frontier
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First Australian Edition.
22cm x 13cm. 252 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Creasing to wrappers. Tanning. Minor soiling. Good Condition. -
True Red: The life of an ex-Mongrel Mob Gang Leader
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Book is in Near Fine condition, by which we mean almost as if in its original new condition, but containing very slight marks of age and/or wear from light handling. Near Fine Condition. -
Outlaws In Babylon: Shocking true adventures on America’s marijuana frontier
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22cm x 13cm. 252 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor shelf and handling wear. Minor foxing and tanning. Good Condition. -
The Man Who Knew Too Much
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First Edition.
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I Know Who Killed Betty Shanks
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First Edition.
23cm x 15cm. xxiv, 220 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Foreword by Barry Boettcher.
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Outlaws In Babylon: Shocking true adventures on America’s marijuana frontier
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Book is in Good condition, by which we mean it has marks of age and is well worn from handling, but is still intact and good for reading. Good Condition.