True Crime - Secondhand

The book titled Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness by the author Pavel Sudoplatov. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Aaron Roy Evan's startling, imagistic debut takes its cue from a true event: In 1936, in a small town near Charlottesville, Virginia, an aging black caretaker and his sister shot...

In the second half of the fourth century BC, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great created the largest empire the world has ever known. On 11 June 323 BC, in...

This true legal thriller debunks everything the media and the government told us about the Department of Justice's destruction and prosecution of the venerable accounting firm Arthur Andersen, Merrill Lynch...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Moderate silverfish damage on DJ. Otherwise internally sound. A gripping...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA vivid and warmly humorous biography, An English Madam: The Life and Work of Cynthia Payne chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodVictorian England harboured few monsters as chilling as Mary Ann Cotton — a soft-spoken widow who buried husband after husband, child after child, collecting...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn 1968, the city of Newcastle upon Tyne was shaken to its core when eleven-year-old Mary Bell was convicted of the manslaughter...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the shadow of the Holocaust's darkest hour, Advocate for the Dead: The Story of Joel Brand chronicles one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the heart of Victorian London, a scandal of breathtaking proportions threatened to bring down the establishment: a male brothel...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of forensic science and criminal justice stands Science and the Criminal, a...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the height of America's Red Scare, Hollywood became a battleground where careers, friendships, and consciences were destroyed by a single act:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodOne woman's defiance against the most terrifying machinery of oppression the modern world has ever produced — Stalin's Great Purge — is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn December 1948, a young American embassy clerk named Alexander Dolgun was snatched off the streets of Moscow by Soviet secret police,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat makes murder so irresistibly entertaining? In Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story, renowned Marxist...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the shadowy world where Cold War politics collide with human tragedy, Spies and Other Secrets by Nicholas Bethell stands...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew subjects command as much morbid fascination as the murderous underbelly of twentieth-century France, and Rayner Heppenstall's The Sex War...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew stories from the Cold War era are as chilling and consequential as that of Georgi Markov — a celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark chapter in Australian aviation history unfolds in this remarkable two-in-one volume, combining Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the vast, sun-scorched outback of Australia, where the nearest neighbour might be hundreds of miles away and death can arrive swiftly...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the shadowy intersection of loyalty and betrayal, The Mirror of Deception chronicles one of the most astonishing...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the front lines of the world's most defining conflicts, Frank Legg's War Correspondent delivers a first-hand account of the harrowing realities...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat compels an individual to commit the most extreme act of violence against their fellow human beings? They...

Edition: First US Edition.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingIn 1983, the world's media was electrified by a sensational announcement: the secret diaries of Adolf Hitler had been discovered,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis chilling boxed set brings together some of the most shocking and disturbing true crime stories to have...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the sweltering chaos of one of the twentieth century's most controversial conflicts, a young...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCollar the Lot! is a damning indictment of one of Britain's most shameful wartime secrets — the mass internment and forced deportation...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingBehind every screaming headline lies a story that the public never fully sees — and Deadline by Alan Dower tears back the curtain...

Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Some silverfish damage to back of DJ.One of the most gripping true accounts to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat deters a driver from getting behind the wheel after one too many drinks — fear of death, moral conviction, or the cold calculus of getting...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind barbed wire, in the shadow of watchtowers and relentless uncertainty, one man's story of survival unfolds with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind the powdered wig and the austere bench of the Old Bailey stood one of the most formidable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most sensational espionage cases of the twentieth century is laid bare in John Chabot Smith's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it take to transform a hardened criminal into a changed man?...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodOne of Australia's most baffling and enduring criminal mysteries comes to life in The Pyjama Girl, Robert Coleman's gripping account...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the chaos of February 1942, thousands of civilians and soldiers fled the fall of Singapore aboard hastily assembled vessels, sailing into a nightmare of Japanese...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the myth of Howard Hughes — the reclusive billionaire, the aviation maverick, the shadowy puppet-master of American politics — lay a far stranger and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOn April 26, 1937, the ancient Basque market town of Guernica was reduced to rubble in a matter of hours — a calculated act...

Edition: First Ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the annals of criminal justice, few forensic breakthroughs have proven as decisive and transformative as the science of fingerprint...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Vol II - markings on page 90 (dates corrected). A landmark true crime trilogy in forensic science history,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBones tell stories — and in The Bone Detectives, forensic anthropologists are the ones who know how to listen. Written by Donna M. Jackson...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the shadowy corridors of ancient empires to the clandestine operations of the modern era, Spies and Spymasters: A Concise History of Intelligence presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFrom the blood-soaked battlefields of the ancient world to the infamous stone walls of Colditz Castle, Prisoner of War: The Inside Story of the POW...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the rugged and unforgiving Australian Alps of the late 1940s and 1950s, thousands of workers from across...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A - Paperback with some wear and fading to cover. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Intact. b&w plates intact. A gripping work...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few legal battlegrounds are as colourful or contentious as the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. "From the frontlines of the Second World War...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Some yellowing; fep clipped. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Binding intact. From political assassinations to daring escapes, natural disasters...