Christopher A. Darden

Jess Walter

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

In Contempt

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Marcia Clark

Teresa Carpenter

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

Provides a behind-the-scenes look at the O.J. Simpson trial and shares the author's opinions on the legal strategies, principal lawyers, and media coverage

Without a Doubt

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Margalit Fox

Indiana

The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer

"A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it's about so much more than crime."--Tana French, author of In the Woods
 
A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue--a true story.    

After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater, an immigrant Jewish cardsharp. Though he was known to be innocent, Slater was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor. Outraged by this injustice, Arthur Conan Doyle, already world renowned as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, used the methods of his most famous character to reinvestigate the case, ultimately winning Slater's freedom.

With "an eye for the telling detail, a forensic sense of evidence and a relish for research" (The Wall Street Journal), Margalit Fox immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection and illuminates a watershed moment in its history, when reflexive prejudice began to be replaced by reason and the scientific method.

Praise for Conan Doyle for the Defense

"Artful and compelling . . . [Fox's] narrative momentum never flags. . . . Conan Doyle for the Defense will captivate almost any reader while being pure catnip for the devotee of true-crime writing."--The Washington Post

"Developed with brio . . . [Fox] is excellent in linking the 19th-century creation of policing and detection with the development of both detective fiction and the science of forensics--ballistics, fingerprints, toxicology and serology--as well as the quasi science of 'criminal anthropology.'"--The New York Times Book Review

"[Fox] has an eye for the telling detail, a forensic sense of evidence and a relish for research."--The Wall Street Journal

"Gripping . . . The book works on two levels, much like a good Holmes case. First, it is a fluid story of a crime. . . . Second, and more pertinently, it is a deeper story of how prejudice against a class of people, the covering up of sloppy police work and a poisonous political atmosphere can doom an innocent. We should all heed Holmes's salutary lesson: rationally follow the facts to find the truth."--Time

Conan Doyle for the Defense

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Illinois

A Novel

The Quality of Mercy

Sidney Sheldon

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Massachusetts

She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with nightmares, and she had awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom.

Thus begins Sidney Sheldon's chilling new novel, Tell Me Your Dreams. Three beautiful young women are suspected of committing a series of brutal murders. The police make an arrest that leads to one of the most bizarre murder trials of the century. Based on actual events, Sheldon's novel races from London to Rome to the city of Quebec to San Francisco, with a climax that will leave the reader stunned.

Tell Me Your Dreams

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Hampshire

Benjamin Weaver, the quick-witted pugilist turned private investigator, returns in David Liss's sequel to the Edgar Award-winning novel, A Conspiracy of Paper.

"[A] wonderful book . . . every bit as good as [Liss's] remarkable debut . . . easily one of the year's best."--The Boston Globe

Moments after his conviction for a murder he did not commit, at a trial presided over by a judge determined to find him guilty, Benjamin Weaver is accosted by a stranger who cunningly slips a lockpick and a file into his hands. In an instant he understands two things: Someone wants him to hang--and another equally mysterious agent is determined to see him free. After a daring escape from eighteenth-century London's most notorious prison, Weaver must face another challenge: to prove himself innocent when the corrupt courts have shown they care nothing for justice. Unable to show his face in public, Weaver pursues his inquiry disguised as a wealthy merchant seeking to involve himself in the contentious world of politics. Desperately navigating a labyrinth of schemers, crime lords, assassins, and spies, Weaver learns that in an election year, little is what it seems and the truth comes at a staggeringly high cost.

Praise for A Spectacle of Corruption

"[A] rousing sequel of historical, intellectual suspense. "--San Antonio Express-News 

"Liss is a superb writer who evokes the squalor of London with Hogarthian gusto."--People

"In Benjamin Weaver, Mr. Liss has created a multifaceted character and a wonderful narrator."--The New York Sun

A Spectacle of Corruption

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Alabama

An overview of the noted O. J. Simpson murder trial and the events preceding it.

The O. J. Simpson Trial

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Shelley Pearsall

Novel with theater scripts in the back where you can act out some scenes in the book! I have other books available by this author.

New York

The year is 1812. A white trapper is murdered. And a young Chippewa Indian stands accused.

Crooked River

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Florida

Prosecuting Casey Anthony

The prosecuting attorney for the trial of Casey Anthony offers an inside account of the investigation, explaining how the prosecution built their case and why the media fixation on Anthony may have undermined the case.

Imperfect Justice

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Dennis L. Breo

William J. Martin

Bill Kunkle

Texas

Richard Speck and the Murders That Shocked a Nation

On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through several student nurses’ townhouse like a summer tornado and changed the landscape of American crime. He broke in as his helpless victims slept, bound them one by one, and then stabbed, assaulted, and strangled all eight in a sadistic sexual frenzy. By morning, only one young nurse had miraculously survived. The killer was captured in seventy-two hours; he was successfully prosecuted in an error-free trial that stood up to appellate scrutiny; and the jury needed only forty-nine minutes to return a death verdict. Here is the story of Richard Speck by the prosecutor who put him in prison for life with a brand new introduction by Bill Kunkle, the prosecutor of the infamous John Wayne Gacy Jr. In The Crime of the Century, William J. Martin has teamed up with Dennis L. Breo to re-create the blood-soaked night that made American criminal history, offering fascinating behind-the-scenes descriptions of Speck, his innocent victims, the desperate manhunt and massive investigation, and the trial that led to Speck’s successful conviction.

The Crime of the Century

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Renne Sundheimer, a thirty-six-year-old former cello prodigy, instructs a young Korean cellist, serves on a jury with a beautiful woman named Maria-Theresa, and finds romance and a renewed sense of purpose. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

The Soloist

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A Harper Novel of Suspense

Counsel for the Defense

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Based on a true but little known episode in Daniel Boone's lide, Allan Eckert's first full-length novel re-creates the legendary frontiersman's severest test - the trial for his life at Boonesborough in 1778. A captain during the Revolutionary War, Boone faces court-martial and hanging for such high crimes as betraying his command to the Indians, conspiring to surrender Boonesborough, consorting with the enemy, and accepting favors from the British. And Boone pleads guilty to all of the actions detailed in the charges against him. But he also pleads not guilty to the charge of treason, and to the amazement of the court, he insists on defending himself - disregarding the advice of experienced counsel in favor of a plan only he himself knows. Strong, seemingly irrefutable evidence is added to the prosecution's case with each witness. To a man, they corraborate the capture of Boone and his company by Shawnee Indians, Boone's preferential treatment in the Indian camp.

The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone

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Three San Francisco doctors encounter the challenges of the medical profession, a murder charge, and a deadly bet. By the author of The Stars Shine Down. 1,000,000 first printing. $650,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild Main. Tour.

Nothing Lasts Forever

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California

Sadakat Kadri

New Jersey

A History, from Socrates to O. J. Simpson

With tremendous wit, clarity, and insight, Kadri journeys through 2,500 years of jurisprudence and reveals how age-old superstitions--often religious and mystical, sometimes even sacrificial--continue to infuse what is thought of as a quintessentially rational process.

The Trial

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Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder

Bernhard Schlink

Cuando el adolescente Michael Berg cae enfermo volviendo a casa del colegio, es ayudado por Hanna, una mujer que lo dobla en edad. Con el tiempo, ella se convertira en su amante, cautivandolo con su pasion, pero confundiendolo con sus silencios. Pero un dia, Hanna desaparece sin dejar rastro. Siete anos despues, Michael, ahora estudiante de derecho, vuelve a ver a Hanna cuando esta es llevada a juicio por un horrible crimen del que se niega a defenderse.

El Lector (Movie Tie-In Edition) / the Reader

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James Patterson

Hardcover with dust jacket. Check out my other listings for more Patterson, clearing out my collection. 

West Virginia

Maggie Bradford, a successful singer/songwriter and loving mother, is accused of murdering her first husband, an abusive stalker, and her second husband, an irresistible monster, and struggles to escape a nightmarish legacy of terror and violence. 200,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo.

Hide and Seek

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Nancy Pickard

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Pocket Books, 2000, 264 pages 

Few killers of our time, whether real or imagined, are in the same league as Raymond Raintree. And as he stands in a Florida courtroom waiting to be convicted for the murder of Natalie Mae McCullen, Marie Lightfoot is taking it all in. Renowned for her true-crime bestsellers, Marie knows the case will make her best book yet -- because Raintree's crime, vile beyond imagining, is also impossible to turn away from. Creator of the award-winning Jenny Cain series, Pickard premieres a superb new heroine in a masterpiece of psychological suspense.

"Nancy Pickard pushes at the presumed limits of [crime fiction]" said the Los Angeles Times Book Review, praising the award-winning creator of the Jenny Cain mysteries. Now, Pickard blurs the line between fiction and reality in a novel of gripping intensity, and premieres a superb new heroine: true-crime author Marie Lightfoot. For her next surefire bestseller, Marie is covering the trial of a Florida killer -- a case that penetrates her own life, layer by disturbing layer. Whether real like Ted Bundy, or imagined like Hannibal Lecter, few killers of our time are in the same league as Raymond Raintree. And as he stands flanked by lawyers in a Florida courtroom, waiting to be convicted for the murder of Natalie Mae McCullen, Marie Lightfoot is taking it all in. A small, gutsy blonde renowned for her true-crime bestsellers, Marie knows the graphic and disturbing case will make her best book yet -- because Raintree's shocking crime, vile beyond imagining, is also impossible to turn away from. But there is something about the case -- and Raintree's involvement -- that bothers her. No one knows where Raintree, a man as slight and immature as a preteen boy, took Natalie after he abducted her. No one knows how Natalie -- bright, independent, and with no fear of the dark -- could be lured into a stranger's boat on a lonely waterway. And only one witness saw a man who may have been Raintree motoring along in a water taxi on the night Natalie disappeared. Even if the police can't provide answers, Marie intends to leave no loose ends. Starting with a prison meeting with Raintree, the steely-nerved writer follows a twisted path that leads to Natalie's parents, to a coincidence that doesn't quite gel, and to a place she has resisted all her life: the dark recesses of her own soul, where she hides the secrets of her own lost past. When Raymond escapes, Marie -- a curious contradiction of celebrity author and introspective loner -- becomes a sitting duck for a killer who just might be smart enough to outwit her. And evil enough to take her to hell before she dies. A masterpiece of psychological suspense, The Whole Truth is a compelling look at our fascination with the horrific crimes of our time. Nancy Pickard's characters are as close to flesh and blood as fiction can get -- and her writing is as close to perfection.

The Whole Truth

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Steven M. Wise

The 1772 London trial of James Somerset, rescued from a ship bound for the West Indies slave markets, was a decisive turning point in history. As in the Scopes trial, two encompassing world views clashed in an event of passionate drama. Steven M. Wise, trial lawyer and legal historian, has uncovered layer upon layer of fascinating revelations in a case which threatened, according to slave owners, to bring the economy of the British Empire to a crashing halt. In a gripping narrative of Somerset's trial-and of the slave trials that led up to it-he sets the stage for the unexpected decision by the famously conservative judge, Lord Mansfield, which would lead to the abolition of slavery, both in England and the United States, and the end of the African slave trade.The characters in this great historical moment go beyond a screenwriter's dream: Somerset's novice attorneys arguing their first case; the fervent British abolitionist Granville Sharp, a cross between Ralph Nader and William Lloyd Garrison, who had brought case after case to court in an attempt to abolish slavery; the master's two-faced and skillful lawyer, who had recently argued before Mansfield that slavery could not exist in England; and finally, the greatest judge of his time, Lord Mansfield, whose own mulatto grand-niece, Dido Belle, was his slave.As the case drew to a close Lord Mansfield spoke these stirring words that continue to resound more than two centuries later: "Let Justice be done, though the Heavens may fall."A Merloyd Lawrence Book

The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery

Though the Heavens May Fall - First Printing

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Alice Kaplan

Tennessee

On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction--a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je Suis Partout, in whose pages he regularly printed wartime denunciations of Jews and resistance activists.

Was Brasillach in fact guilty of treason? Was he condemned for his denunciations of the resistance, or singled out as a suspected homosexual? Was it right that he was executed when others, who were directly responsible for the murder of thousands, were set free? Kaplan's meticulous reconstruction of Brasillach's life and trial skirts none of these ethical subtleties: a detective story, a cautionary tale, and a meditation on the disturbing workings of justice and memory, The Collaborator will stand as the definitive account of Brasillach's crime and punishment.

A National Book Award Finalist

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

"A well-researched and vivid account."--John Weightman, New York Review of Books

"A gripping reconstruction of [Brasillach's] trial."--The New Yorker

"Readers of this disturbing book will want to find moral touchstones of their own. They're going to need them. This is one of the few works on Nazism that forces us to experience how complex the situation really was, and answers won't come easily."--Daniel Blue, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"The Collaborator is one of the best-written, most absorbing pieces of literary history in years."--David A. Bell, New York Times Book Review

"Alice Kaplan's clear-headed study of the case of Robert Brasillach in France has a good deal of current-day relevance. . . . Kaplan's fine book . . . shows that the passage of time illuminates different understandings, and she leaves it to us to reflect on which understanding is better."--Richard Bernstein, The New York Times

The Collaborator - The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach

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Gregg Jarrett

Don Yaeger

The tragic Lindbergh kidnapping case, the trial of "thrill killers" Leopold and Loeb, the espionage prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg, and the O.J. Simpson double-murder case were all famous trials and media spectacles in their day. But the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, as the press dubbed it, manifested an epic cultural struggle in America between traditional religious beliefs and free speech and academic liberty. At stake was the right to teach evolution in public schools even though it might conflict with the story of man's creation hi the Bible. A Dayton, Tennessee, courtroom served as the dramatic setting for a fierce debate over science, faith, intellectual enlightenment, and the power of ideas. Journalists the world over converged on the small town to witness a young schoolteacher stand trial, fighting for the indispensable proposition that no one should be told how to think. In the pre-television age, it was the first trial to be broadcast live on radio to a riveted nationwide audience. Two of our country's best-known orators faced off in a titanic clash as celebrated defense attorney Clarence Darrow called to the witness stand three-time presidential candidate and fundamentalist leader William Jennings Bryan, a member of the prosecution team. It was a daring and consequential move. The New York Times described Darrow's withering cross-examination as "the most amazing court scene in Anglo-Saxon history." The stunning outcome foreshadowed the fraught culture wars that would shape America throughout the century and beyond. It was truly The Trial of the Century.

The Trial of the Century

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George Pelecanos

Virginia

A Washington, D.C., crime lord fights for his life in court while P.I. Derek Strange finds a woman whose testimony could mean death or freedom for the crime lord.

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In Contempt

Marcia Clark; Teresa Carpenter

Without a Doubt

Margalit Fox

Conan Doyle for the Defense

Barry Unsworth

The Quality of Mercy

Sidney Sheldon

Tell Me Your Dreams

David Liss

A Spectacle of Corruption

Earle Rice

The O. J. Simpson Trial

Shelley Pearsall

Crooked River

Jeff Ashton

Imperfect Justice

Dennis L. Breo; William J. Martin; Bill Kunkle

The Crime of the Century

Mark Salzman

The Soloist

Jeffrey Ashford

Counsel for the Defense

Allan W. Eckert

The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone

Sidney Sheldon

Nothing Lasts Forever

Marcia Clark; Teresa Carpenter

Without a Doubt

Sadakat Kadri

The Trial

Vincent Bugliosi

Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder

Bernhard Schlink

El Lector (Movie Tie-In Edition) / the Reader

James Patterson

Hide and Seek

Nancy Pickard

The Whole Truth

Steven M. Wise

Though the Heavens May Fall - First Printing

Alice Kaplan

The Collaborator - The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach

Gregg Jarrett; Don Yaeger

The Trial of the Century

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