Simon Read

New never read a true tale of newprint and murder. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A True Tale of Newsprint and Murder

When the news business was literally a matter of life and death...

A real-life  Barbary Coast, War of Words details the bloody birth of the San Francisco Chronicle, when verbal blows traded between two of the town’s most powerful men escalated into violence on the streets of 1880s San Francisco.

Gun-toting newspaper publisher Charles de Young won circulation wars by spilling ink that destroyed political candidates he didn’t like--and Isaac Kalloch, a hellfire preacher whose lust for the ladies equaled his craving to be mayor, was an obvious target. First angry words flew, then bullets, when de Young ambushed Kalloch and shot him. Miraculously, Kalloch survived and won the election, only to see his son enact revenge on his behalf five months later by walking into the newsroom and fatally shooting de Young. The trial lasted 28 days, featured over 200 witnesses and made headlines coast to coast. The verdict? Not guilty, by reason of "justifiable homicide.”

This sensational tale of sex, murder, and muckraking enthralled San Franciscans and is sure to captivate modern readers as well.

 

War of Words

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Gary Cartwright

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Drug Smuggling on the Mexican Border and the Assassination of a Federal Judge

We were a good family . . . Joe said . . . "But the real downfall of our family was the money. You can't know what it does until it happens to you . . . until everyone is chin-deep in millions of dollars." Dirty Dealing documents the rise and fall of the Chagra brothers, who became involved in drug smuggling and the assassination of a federal judge.

Dirty Dealing

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#paperback #nonfiction #truecrime #miracles #Christian #DrPattiWagner “The victim of a sinister murder plot, she was beaten, bruised, and tortured during a wave of terror that lasted for 10 terrible days. Then she was electrocuted and died. A doctor signed her death certificate. But the Lord performed a miracle! And she lives today!” (slight wear to paperback, past owners name written in pencil on first page)

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Murdered Heiress, Living Witness

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Published 2001, *Spanish Language Edition,* Previous owner's sticker pasted to front end paper. ISBN: 9789584202192

New Jersey

Drogas y Narcotrafico en Colombia

Glenn Puit

5 true crime 
Witch 
The btk murders 
Strangler 
They’re killing our children 
Slow death 


Arizona

The True Story of Las Vegas' Most Notorious Female Killer

Documents the twenty-year crime and killing spree of Brookey Lee West, a successful technical writer in Silicon Valley, whose beliefs in witchcraft and satanism drove her to murder. Original.

Witch

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Charles Manson

Vintage First Edition Book on cult leader and convicted murderer Charles Manson. Very Good Condition for age. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket is Excellent and pages are almost new for 1986. Illustrated. Perfect for people who like True Crime. Medium Size Book. 



Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

In His Own Words

An astonishing look into Charles Manson's criminal mind, based on hundreds ofhours of interviews and a detailed examination of his correspondence, servingalso as a vivid picture of the last years of the sixties.

Manson

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Signed Autobiography Last Train to Alcatraz by retired Bank Robber Whitey Thompson. Excellent Condition for age. Hardcover and pages are like new. No Dust Jacket. Perfect for people who like Prison Writing or True Crime. Medium Size Book.

The Autobiography of Leon “Whitey” Thompson

Signed Autobiography Book ~ Last Train to Alcatraz by Leon Thompson

Spanish magazine. True Crime of Selena. A beautiful Singer with a bright future cut too short. The magazine talks about the crime, the hearing, and the sentencing of her killer. 

Florida

Selena

Crime Y Castigo

Vintage True Crime Book by Tex Watson The Man Who Killed for Charles Manson. Excellent Condition for age. Hardcover. Jacket and pages have very little wear for 1978. Perfect for Collectors. Medium Size Book. 

If you like Books about the Manson Family please see the others listed in my shop on Pango. 20% when you buy 2! Free shipping too. Thanks for reading. 

Charles Manson 

Will You Die for Me?

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Mari Jungstedt

Gritty coastal thriller on a quaint Scandinavian island. One of favorites!

Anders Knutas Series 1

The island of Gotland is in the middle of a busy tourist season, and getting ready for Midsummer holidays, when a young woman and her dog are found brutally murdered. The dog has been beheaded and is missing a paw; the woman has been stabbed repeatedly, and is naked, with a piece of cloth stuffed in her mouth. What looks like a crime committed by the victim's jealous husband keeps the local police force on their toes. Then a second victim is found. It seems a serial killer is terrorizing tourists and locals alike, and Inspector Anders Knutas has to face additional pressure from the media and local politicians who are worried about bad PR for the island. In his quest for the murderer, he is aided by Johan Berg, an intrepid young journalist from Stockholm who has been sent to cover the incidents and who gets involved with Emma, one of the first victim's close friends. Three women die before Knutas and Berg, each approaching the case in their own way, finally close in on the killer, who has always, until now, been the one unseen by everybody.

Unseen

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Sex Sadists

Signed Mafia Memoir Book Blood Covenant by Michael Franzese. Excellent Condition for age. Hardcover. Jacket and Pages have very little wear as shown. Perfect for people who like True Crime. Books make great Gifts! Medium Size Book 

He Quit the Mob and Lived

Blood Covenant 

Vintage True Crime Book on serial killer Ted Bundy. Very Good Condition. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket and Pages are Almost New for 1983. Perfect for people who like Biographies. Medium Size Book. 

The Only Living Witness

Ronan Farrow

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Illinois

Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family. All the while, Farrow and his producer faced a degree of resistance they could not explain -- until now. And a trail of clues revealed corruption and cover-ups from Hollywood to Washington and beyond. This is the untold story of the exotic tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability, and silence victims of abuse. And it's the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement. Both a spy thriller and a meticulous work of investigative journalism, Catch and Kill breaks devastating new stories about the rampant abuse of power and sheds far-reaching light on investigations that shook our culture. INDIE BOUND #1 BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLERWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

Catch and Kill

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Ohio

Killer Book of Serial Killers

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Incredible Stories, Facts and Trivia from the World of Murder and Mayhem

The Killer Book of True Crime

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North Carolina

Fragile designs 

Harlan Coben

Some minor wear on the spine due to the glossy cover. 

A Novel

DON’T MISS THE NETFLIX SERIES FOOL ME ONCE—COMING SOON! A widowed veteran gets the shock of her life in this impossible-to-put-down thriller from the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix dramas The Stranger and Stay Close. In the course of multiple consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers, millions of readers have discovered Harlan Coben’s page-turning thrillers, filled with his trademark edge-of-your-seat suspense and gut-wrenching emotion. In Fool Me Once, Coben once again outdoes himself.... Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe—who was brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband—and herself.

Fool Me Once (Netflix Tie-In)

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Iowa

A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

This riveting nonfiction book for teens about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment tells the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California.

The 57 Bus

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Principal Suspect

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Ernest Volkman

John Cummings

In an action-packed reconstruction of the events leading to the 1978 robbery of the Lufthansa Air Cargo terminal at New York's Kennedy Airport, award-winning reporters Volkman and Cummings apply years of research to uncover a stunning true crime story--complete with murder, the Mafia, greed, sex and betrayal.

The Heist

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Truman Capote

An account of the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and the search for the killers

In Cold Blood

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Norma Lewis

Michigan scoundrels by normal Lewis rogues rascals, and Rapscallions 

The rich history of the wolverine state has a serious dark side in the Detroit area. The black legion outdid the Ku Klux Klan and heat, but remained secret until one of its leaders was implicated in a murder John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek was equal parts, physician and quack then there were the states to self proclaim kings James Jesse Strang, the leader of a Mormon group on Beaver Island and Albert monitor the reputed illegitimate son of a German royalty who established his own kingdom on Presque Island Michigan’s author and historian Lewis presents a gallery of the states, criminals crooks, common and more.

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Rogues, Rascals and Rapscallions

The rich history of the Wolverine State has a serious dark side. In the Detroit area, the Black Legion outdid the Ku Klux Klan in hate but remained secret until one of its leaders was implicated in a murder. John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek was equal parts physician and quack. Then there were the state's two self-proclaimed kings--James Jesse Strang, the leader of a Mormon group on Beaver Island, and Albert Molitor, the reputed illegitimate son of German royalty who established his own kingdom on Presque Isle. Michigan author and historian Norma Lewis present a gallery of the state's most despicable criminals, crooks, conmen and more.

Michigan Scoundrels

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett.

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