True Crime

By Barry Bortnick 1997, Pinnacle Books, 244pp. Photo insert. (G) Story of serial killer and torturer Joseph Jablonski.

By Philip Carlo. 1996, Pinnacle, 559, photo insert, list $5.99. (G) "Ten years after the murder spree that left thriteen people dead and paralysed the city of Los Angeles with fear, his name is synonymous with Satanism, torture and sadistic murder.... Painstaking research over three years, based on nearly 100 hours of exclusive interviews with Richard Ramires on California's Death Row, the Night Stalker is the definitive account of America's most feared serial murderer." (3/23/99)

By Anna Flowers. 1993, Pinnacle, 320pp, photo insert. (G) Killed dozens of women in Florida in the 70s and 80s. (5/27/99)

By Robert Greysmith. 1986 (1987), Berkley, 337pp. The search for the Zodiac Killer. (G) (7/18/99)

By Ann Rule. 1980 (1989), Pocket Books, 442pp, 8 page photo insert, list $7.99. "A shocking true story of serial killer Ted Bundy, the All-American boy who murdered women..." Written by a reporter who knew Bundy before he was captured. (1/10/99)

By Robert D. Keppel and William J. Birnes. 1995, Pocket, 475pp, photo insert. Ted Bundy, while on death Row in Florida, offers help in finding the Green River killer in Washington State. (6/17/99)

By Vincent Bugliosi & Curt Gentry. 1974, Norton, 502pp. (G+ in edgeworn DJ, no marks or defects) (4/10/99)

By Vincent Bugliosi & Curt Gentry. 1975, Bantam, 676pp. (G+)

By Truman Capote. 1965, New American Library, 384pp. (fair, worn cover) Bestselling account of the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959. Follows the killers to their ultimate execution.

By Stephen Levy. 1999, Onyx. Story of fugative guru Ira Einhorn who murdered his girlfriend and has lived in Europe since. (5/11/99) - Also listed on Profiles of Psychics.

By Robert Graysmith. 1993, Crown, 274pp, photo insert. (G+ in G+ DJ in wraps. Xlib with usual markings.) Story of the 1978 murder of the TV star. (6/8/99)

By Colin Wilson. 1989, Warner, 272pp, out-of-print. (G+) "It has been repeated throughout history: scenes of carnage and dismemberment that shock even the most hardened detective. What moster could have committed such an act? Now, noted crime historian Colin Wilson takes us into the frightening minds of history's most blood-crazed killers..." True Crime (4/10/99) - Also listed on Colin Wilson: Books on Paranormal Phenomena and True Crime.

By Rose F. Mandelsberg (editor). 1994, Pannacle, 436pp. Photo insert. "The shocking case histories of America's most notorious teenage butchers!". (G+) (7/16/99)

By Bernard Lefkowitz and Kenneth G. Gross. 1969, Putnam, 510pp. Account of the 1963 murder of two New York women, Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert. (VG in G DJ.) (9/7/99)

For other True Crime books.

By Lorenzo Carcaterra. 1992, Ballantine, 301pp. (G) A son learns that his father killed his first wife.

By Joe McGinniss. 1983, Signet, 654pp. (VG) "The electrifying true story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children, murders he vehemently denies committing." (6/2/99)

By Maria Eftimiades. 1995, St. Martin's Press, 246pp. Photo insert. (G+) (7/16/99)

By Barbara Davis. 1999, Onyx, 322p, photo insert, list $6.99. (G. Mild water damage to some pages.) Murder by Darlie Routier of her children in Rowlett, Texas, 1996. "Here for the first time, is the complete inside story of the sensational murder case that rocked a community and a nation." (4/27/99)

By Ann Rule. 1988, Signet, 494pp. (G) About Diane Downs, who shot her children in 1984.

By Patricia Campbell Hearst and Alvin Moscow. 1982, Doubleday, 491pp. Autobiography of the heiress kidnapped in 1974 by the SLA and who later turned to their cause. (VG in chipped DJ. Book club edition.) (7/30/99)

By William Wright. 1983, Delacourt, 372pp. Story of Claus Von Bulow, of Newport, Rhode Island, accused of the murder of his socialite wife but later cleared. (VG, no DJ.) (7/25/99)

By Mark Fuhrman. 1998, HarperCollins, 283pp. The controversial detective in the O.J. case recounts a 1975 murder in wealthy Greenwich, Connecticut. Published at $25.00. (10/10/99)

By Richard Monaco and Lionel Bascom. 1991, Avon, 181pp, Orig. $4.50, out-of-print. (G) "From the St. Valentine's Day Massacre to the Killing of 'Big Paul' Castellano -- shocking true accounts of gangland's most brutal and brazen assassinations." (2/17/99)

By Dan E. Moldea. 1989, William Morrow, 512pp. (VG- in VG- DJ. Faint water stain on first few pages.) (10/1/99)

By unstated. 1931 (1980?), unstated publisher, 64pp, magazine-style booklet, 11x8.5". B+W newspaper photos throughout, a modern reprint of a vintage publication. (VG) An undated, magazine-style publication showing no author name and no publisher. In a series of illustrated articles, the Chicago gang wars of the Prohibition Era are described, including the St. Valentine's Massacre, Al Capone and various gangsters. Appears to be a modern reprint of a vintage tabloid publication. Capone is mentioned as still the reining mob chief, so the text was written before his successful prosecution on tax evasion charges. Murders as spoken of as recent and there are no dates mentioned later than 1930. The price on the cover is $10.00, so this printing was probably in the 1980s or 1990s. An interesting contemporaneous account of the the gang wars.

By Vincent Murano and William Hoffer. 1990 (1991), Pocket, 300pp. A New York City detective goes undercover as "mafioso" to expose bad cops. (Near Fine) (7/29/99)

By Ann Rule. 1992, Pocket, 552pp, list $5.99. (G+) The murder spree of Georgia killer Pat Taylor.

By Ann Rule. 1994, Pocket Books, 461pp, photo inserts, orig. $6.99. (G. Corner clipped on front cover.) Ann Rule's Crime Files, Vol 2. "Rule fixes her unsparing professional gaze on one of Florida's most shocking criminal cases -- that of Tim Harris, a poster-perfect "all-American" Florida State Trooper who hid bizarre and fatal fantasies behind his badge -- plus other true crime cases from her personal files." Florida (2/27/99)

By Ann Rule. 1993, Pocket Books, 513pp, photo inserts. (VG+. Unread.) Ann Rule's Crime Files, Vol. 1. "..one of the most imfamous cases in the Pacific Northwest -- that of Randy Roth, a man who married for profit, and the women who were his victims -- and other compelling true crime accounts from her personal case files." Washington (2/27/99)

By Ann Rule. 1991, Pocket, 591pp. (G+) Man who convinced his daughter to murder his wife. (6/21/99)

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