True Crime Paperbacks for Sale - updated listing
Mr. Mike
Zebra, 1986, 1st. 399p. American sentenced to Soviet gulag for drug smuggling,
he later escapes! $3.00
Andrews, Frank Earl, editor: Prose and Cons.
Pyramid, 1976, 1st. 250p. Writing by convicts, including Patricia Krenwinkle,
Henry Lucas, Leslie Van Houton. $3.00
Aspen, Leslie: The Kovaks Contract.
Everest, 1st, 1975. 239p. Autobiography of a master mercenary. $3.00
Browning, Wilt: Deadly Goals.
St. Martin's, 1996, 1st. 298p. College football star beats, rapes and molests
his girl friend, then she vanishes. 8 pages of photos. $3.00
Clarkson, Wensley: Slave Girls.
St. Martin's, 1996, 1st. 259p. Sleazy potboiler compilation tells of women in
bondage around the world. Includes chapter on Gary Heidnik. 8 pages of photos.
$3.00
Cox, Bill G.: Shop of Horrors.
Pinnacle, 1998, 1st. 307p. Ex-cop brutalizes his girlfriends, rapes and murders
one woman and sexually assaults a second. 12 pages of photos. $3.00
DeFelice, Jim: Kill Grandma for Me.
Pinnacle, 1998, 1st. 302p. 13-year-old girl enlists the aid of her 15-year-old
boyfriend to kill her grandmother. Some of the sexual descriptions used by the
kids are disturbing. 12 pages of "shocking" photos. $3.00
Dorman, Michael: Blood and Revenge.
Dell, 1991, 1st. 212p. Young man is marked to die after killing woman in car
crash. $3.00
Duffy, Clinton T. with Hirschberg, Al: Sex and Crime
Pocket Books, 1st, 1967. 180p. Ex-San Quentin Warden gives his opinion on the
motivation behind most crime -- it's sex! Lurid cover art. Barely read. $7.50
Furneaux, Rupert: Courtroom U.S.A. 1
Penguin, 1st, 1962. 185p. British take on 3 famous U.S. cases: Harry Thaw,
Lindberg kidnapping, Sacco and Vanzetti. $5.00
Furneaux, Rupert: Courtroom U.S.A. 2
Penguin, 1st, 1963. 185p. British take on 4 famous U.S. cases: Leopold and Loeb,
Ruth Snyder/Judd Gray, Harry Hoffman and Alger Hiss. $5.00
Gollmar, Judge Robert H.: Edward Gein
Pinnacle, 3rd, 1989. 226p. The story of the man who inspired Psycho and the
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, told by the judge who presided at his trial. 8 pages of
very grisly photographs (for once this description is accurate). $7.50
Griswold, H. Jack; Misenheimer, Mike; Powers, Art; and Tromanhauser, Ed: An Eye
for an Eye.
Pocket Books, 2nd, 1971. 246p. Four convicts tell about the crime in prisons.
$5.00
Harris, Arthur Jay: Speed Kills.
Avon, 1998, 1st. 405p. Brand new. Unknown assailant guns down fast-living Miami
designer of speedboats. 8 pages of photos. $4.00
Hirsch, Phil, ed.: Death House
Pyramid, 1st, 1966. 191p. Cover wear. Compilation, 11 tales of convicts' last
moments, drawn from the pages of Man's Magazine and Challenge Magazine. $5.00
Holmes, Paul: The Trials of Dr. Coppolino.
Signet, 1968, 1st. 304p. Story of adultery and death tingued with the demonic
and the supernatural. $3.50
Howard, Clark: Brotheres in Blood.
St. Martin's, 1983, 1st. 392p. Cover wear. Four youths escaping from prison
murder and torture family in Georgia. $3.50
Hue, William Bradford: Ruby McCollum.
Signet, 1957, 1st. 157p. Binding is fragile. Black woman murders white
physician, the father of her illegitimate child. 4 pages of photos. $3.50
Kefauver, Senator Estes: Crime in America
Four Square, 1st?, 1958. 255p. Library discard, some tape on spine. Story of
televised inquiry into organized crime in 1951 by the chairman of the Senate
committee. $7.50
Lebrun, George P. as told to Radin, Edward, D.: Call Me If It's Murder!
(formerly It's Time To Tell).
Bantam, 1st, 1965. 181p. Compilation of several notorious murder cases. $3.00
Linedecker, Clifford: Night Stalker
St. Martin's, 1st, 1991. 292p. Surprisingly good book about Richard Ramirez --
not for the squeamish! 8 pages of photos. $5.00
Lunde, Donald E.: Murder and Madness
San Francisco Book Company, Inc., 1st, 1975?. 143p. Large paperback. Early look
at America's "murder epidemic" by criminal psychiatrist. Illustrations
throughout. $5.00
Mulgrew, Ian: Final Payoff.
Seal, 1991, 1st. 250p. Cover wear, minor water damage. Clifford Olson, Canada's
most notorious serial killer kills 11 children, then extorts $100,000 from the
government to reveal their bodies' locations. $5.00
News of the World: 150 Years of True Crime.
Michael O'Mara Books, 1st, 1993. 359p. Never read. Compilation of stories from
English newspaper, including Christie, Jack the Ripper, Dr. Crippen, Mary Bell,
The Moors Murders. 16 pages of photos. $5.00
Schofield, Carey: Mesrine: The Life and Death of a Supercrook.
Penguin, 1st, 1980. 201p. Considered by some France's public enemy number one,
others regarded him as the "Robin Hood of the Paris Streets." 8 pages of photos.
$4.00
Sciacca, Tony: Who Killed Marilyn?
Manor Books, 1st, 1976. 222p. Explores the involvement of the Kennedys in
Marilyn Monroe's death. $7.50
Singular, Stephen: Talked to Death.
Berkeley, 1989, 1st. 309p. Opinionated Denver talk show host is assassinated by
neo-Nazi white supremacists. 8 pages of photos. $4.00
Speriglio, Milo: The Marilyn Conspiracy.
Pocket Books, 1st, 1986. 221p. Private detective's snooping uncovers mega-dirt
on the death of Marilyn Monroe. 16 pages of photos. $5.00
Stack, Andy (Ann Rule): The Want-Ad Killer
New American Library, 1983, 2nd. 223p. Man freed from jail in Alaska by a legal
loophole murders young women in Washington and Minnesota. Early book written
under pseudonym, later reissued under Rule's own name -- rare in this format.
$7.50
Thompson, Thomas: Blood and Money.
Dell, 1997, 3rd. 510p. Texas socialite mysteriously murdered by her doctor
husband, who later is brutally slain. 16 pages of photos. $3.00
Thompson, Thomas: Richie
Bantam, 1974, 1st. 278p. Father ignores, then investigates changes in his
14-year-old son, with tragic results. $4.00
Thompson, Thomas: Serpentine.
Dell, 1981, 1st (also available -- 3rd). 639p. Charles Sobhraj, the "Angel of
Death," robs and murders tourists -- a classic. $3.50
Tidyman, Ernest: Dummy.
Bantam, 1975, 1st. 243p. Deaf-mute accused of murdering two prostitutes. $4.00
Walker, Keith: A Piece of My Heart.
Ballantine, 1988, 3rd. 429p. Stories of 26 American women who served in Vietnam.
Pictures throughout. $3.00
Wambaugh, Joseph: The Onion Field.
Dell, 1979, 4th. 444p. Brutal cop killing and its aftermath. Movie tie-in. $3.00
Warnke, Mike: The Satan Seller.
Bridge, 1972, 1st. 213p. Minor burn damage on back cover, last few pages. Former
Satanic high priest finds Jesus -- religious angle. $2.00
Wertham, Fredric: Dark Legend: A Study in Murder.
Bantam, 1st. 635p. Classic case history of a matricide by famous psychiatrist.
$5.00
Wildeblood, Peter: Against the Law
Penguin, 1957, 2nd. 188p. Library discard. First-hand account of Englishman
sentenced to jail for "homosexual offences". $7.50
Woodward, Bob: Veil: The Secret Wars of the C.I.A. 1981-1987.
Pocket, 1988, 1st. 635p. A sweeping investigation of the U.S. spy agency by
celebrated journalist. $4.00
Wright, Theon: Rape in Paradise.
Tower Books, 1966, 1st. 349p. White woman raped by Hawaiian boys causes
sensational trial, delays Hawaiian statehood for two decades! Some pictures.
$3.00
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