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1 Fine Day the Rabbi Bought a Crossby Harry KemelmanISBN 0816143471 (0-8161-4347-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0833522019 (0-8335-2201-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Big Clockby Kenneth FearingISBN 0824023668 (0-8240-2366-8)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Clock'Book summary:George Stroud, executive editor at Crimeways magazine, is involved with the wrong woman - his boss's. When Janoth, the boss, kills her in an argument, he tries to pin the crime on a man seen outside her home just before the murder. He assigns his best investigative reporter - Stroud - to find the man. Trouble is, the man was Stroud himself ...An audacious and ironic novel of terror and high tension. [via]
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Bogmailby Patrick McGinleyISBN 0856160717 (0-85616-071-7)
Hardcover, Martin Brian & O'Keeffe
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The Bone Is Pointedby Arthur William UpfieldISBN 0824023951 (0-8240-2395-1)
Hardcover, Garland Pub
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The Bourne Supremacyby Robert LudlumISBN 0816142246 (0-8161-4224-6)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Case of the Careless Kittenby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0848802721 (0-8488-0272-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Case of the Gilded Flyby Edmund CrispinISBN 0816130183 (0-8161-3018-3)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Cat Who Ate Danish Modernby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0816149143 (0-8161-4914-3)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Cat Who Turned on and Offby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0816148155 (0-8161-4815-5)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Cat Who Wasn't Thereby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 081615693X (0-8161-5693-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Cheim Manuscriptby Richard S. PratherISBN 0812507770 (0-8125-0777-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Circular Staircaseby Mary Roberts RinehartISBN 0821735284 (0-8217-3528-4)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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The Cradle Will Fallby Mary Higgins ClarkISBN 081613121X (0-8161-3121-X)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Crime Dictionaryby Ralph De SolaISBN 0816018723 (0-8160-1872-3)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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The Crucibleby Arthur MillerISBN 0822202557 (0-8222-0255-7)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crucible'Book summary:The enduring classic drama of the Salem witch trials was inspired by the political witch-hunting activities of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the '50s. Though set in the 17th century, "The Crucible" presents issues still gnawing at modern society. [via]
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Dark Passageby David GoodisISBN 0821724177 (0-8217-2417-7)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Deal Me Outby Peter CorrisISBN 0868619787 (0-86861-978-7)
Softcover, Unwin Paperbacks
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The Deeds of the Disturberby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0816146942 (0-8161-4694-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Defense Never Restsby F. Lee BaileyISBN 081281441X (0-8128-1441-X)
Hardcover, Stein & Day Pub
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The Dictionary of Crime Termsby Carl SifakisISBN 0816045488 (0-8160-4548-8)
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Die for Loveby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0812524705 (0-8125-2470-5)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0812504488 (0-8125-0448-8)
Softcover, Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self. [via]
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Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism And the Black Dahlia Murderby Mark Nelson, Sarah Hudson BaylissISBN 0821258192 (0-8212-5819-2)
Hardcover, Bulfinch Pr
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The Father Huntby Rex StoutISBN 0816135487 (0-8161-3548-7)
Softcover, G K Hall & Co
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Flying Too High: A Phryne Fisher Mysteryby Kerry GreenwoodISBN 0869142151 (0-86914-215-1)
Hardcover, McPhee Gribble
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The Foreign Correspondentby Alan FurstISBN 0812967976 (0-8129-6797-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Foreign Correspondent'Book summary:From Alan Furst, whom The New York Times calls Americas preeminent spy novelist, comes an epic story of romantic love, love of country, and love of freedomthe story of a secret war fought in elegant hotel bars and first-class railway cars, in the mountains of Spain and the backstreets of Berlin. It is an inspiring, thrilling saga of everyday people forced by their hearts passion to fight in the war against tyranny.
By 1938, hundreds of Italian intellectuals, lawyers and journalists, university professors and scientists had escaped Mussolinis fascist government and taken refuge in Paris. There, amid the struggles of émigré life, they founded an Italian resistance, with an underground press that smuggled news and encouragement back to Italy. Fighting fascism with typewriters, they produced 512 clandestine newspapers. The Foreign Correspondent is their story.
Paris, a winter night in 1938: a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers hotel. But this is no romantic tragedit is the work of the OVRA, Mussolinis fascist secret police, and is meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine émigré newspaper. Carlo Weisz, who has fled from Trieste and secured a job as a foreign correspondent with the Reuters bureau, becomes the new editor.
Weisz is, at that moment, in Spain, reporting on the last campaign of the Spanish civil war. But as soon as he returns to Paris, he is pursued by the French Sûreté, by agents of the OVRA, and by officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service. In the desperate politics of Europe on the edge of war, a foreign correspondent is a pawn, worth surveillance, or blackmail, or murder.
The Foreign Correspondent is the story of Carlo Weisz and a handful of antifascists: the army officer known as Colonel Ferrara, who fights for a lost cause in Spain; Arturo Salamone, the shrewd leader of a resistance group in Paris; and Christa von Schirren, the woman who becomes the love of Weiszs life, herself involved in a doomed resistance underground in Berlin.
The Foreign Correspondent is Alan Furst at his absolute besttaut and powerful, enigmatic and romantic, with sharp, seductive writing that takes the reader through darkness and intrigue to a spectacular denouement.
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The Fourth Protocolby Frederick ForsythISBN 0816138257 (0-8161-3825-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Frauds, Deceptions, and Swindlesby Carl SifakisISBN 0816044228 (0-8160-4422-8)
Softcover, Facts on File
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Gideon's Nightby J. J. MarricISBN 0821727346 (0-8217-2734-6)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nationby Joseph HallinanISBN 0812968441 (0-8129-6844-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation'Book summary:Imagine a prison built "not because it was needed but because it was wanted--by politicians who thought it would bring them votes, by voters who hoped it would bring them jobs, and by a corrections establishment that no longer believed in correction." In exploring America's prison system--a system that holds more inmates than any other country in the world--Joseph Hallinan discovered that crime was big business. Further, he writes, "Few people complain. Prisons are tremendous public works projects, throwing off money as a wet dog throws off water."
In Going up the River, Hallinan comprehensively chronicles America's prisons, investigating how prison authority has passed from hard-nosed wardens to the federal court system, a change that simultaneously improved the treatment of prisoners while making inmate rehabilitation and safety more difficult to attain. He also addresses the prison boom: facilities quickly built for economic reasons, resulting in poor prison conditions and a system "so lucrative its founders have become rich men." This immense financial gain is ironically juxtaposed with the fact that most people view prisons as a terrible waste of money.
Hallinan also relays the stories of current wardens, guards, inmates, and even townspeople living in the shadow of a prison. He also focuses on the many challenges prisoners face, including gangs, fighting, and rape, as well as the sensitivity of controversial issues such as conjugal visits. The book makes obvious that America's prison system is in disarray, though neither the source nor the solution can be easily isolated. Hallinan does not offer answers or personal opinions; instead, he presents all angles and leaves the reader to consideration. --Jacque Holthusen [via]
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Grave Mistakeby Ngaio MarshISBN 0816166676 (0-8161-6667-6)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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The Guardsby Ken BruenISBN 0863222811 (0-86322-281-1)
Hardcover, Brandon
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The Guns of Heavenby Pete HamillISBN 0843955953 (0-8439-5595-3)
Softcover, Dorchester Pub Co Inc
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The Harlem Cycleby Chester HimesISBN 0862416310 (0-86241-631-0)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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Heroin Annie and Other Cliff Hardy Storiesby Peter CorrisISBN 0868613991 (0-86861-399-1)
Hardcover, G. Allen & Unwin
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The Honourable Schoolboyby John Le CarreISBN 0816165394 (0-8161-6539-4)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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The House That Jack Builtby Ed McBainISBN 0816147582 (0-8161-4758-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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If They Come in the Morningby Angela Yvonne DavisISBN 0855140062 (0-85514-006-2)
Hardcover, (44 Gray's Inn Rd, W.C. 1), Orbach and Chambers Ltd [for] the Angela Davis Defence Committee
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The Informerby Liam O'FlahertyISBN 0863276776 (0-86327-677-6)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Informer'Book summary:Voted one of Ireland's Top 20 greatest novels of all times, this classic thriller was brought to the big screen in the John Ford movie of the same name.
Set against the background of 1920's Ireland The Informer turns from the Irish countryside and its people to an enthralling revolutionary drama of the Dublin underworld.
In the ominous figure of Gypo, an ex-policeman and informer, who takes blood money for betraying his friend and comrade the author has created a character of menace and force. Originally published in 1925 the story still has a strong resonance today. The role of the informer in the 1920's has not changed much in the intervening 80 years. Still seen, in paramilitary organizations, as the lowest form of life the informers are desperate, shady characters who can wreak havoc on friends and comrades and are dealt with then as now with uncompromising and fatal justice. [via]
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Jack the Ripper the Uncensored Factsby Paul BeggISBN 0860515834 (0-86051-583-4)
Softcover, Parkwest Pubns
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Jitterbugby Loren D. EstlemanISBN 0812545370 (0-8125-4537-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jitterbug'Book summary:One of the most interesting new trends in crime fiction is the regional historical thriller, and nobody does it better than Loren D. Estleman, whose books about Detroit's past--Aces and Eights, Billy Gashade, City of Widows, Edsel, Red Highway, Stamping Ground, Stress--turn that city's muscular and often bloody heritage into absorbing fiction.
In Jitterbug, Estelman shows us Detroit during World War II, where Lieutenant Maximillian "Zag" Zagreb heads up a team of overage misfits at the police department's racket squad. A particularly nasty killer called Kilroy appears to be targeting and then slicing up hoarders of ration coupons, and Lieutenant Zagreb's investigators are the thin red line deployed to stop him. They use some extremely unorthodox tactics and find themselves in the midst of a race riot, but Kilroy continues to elude them and fight his private war against profiteers. The heavy is a masterful creation, a believable psychopath who wears a stolen Army Air Force uniform and has made up a heroic career to cover his rejection by military psychiatrists. "On those rare occasions when he did not stand outside himself," Estelman writes, "he could hear the thump of the mortars and chomping of the heavy machine guns behind their sandbags on the hills." --Dick Adler [via]
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Juggerby Richard StarkISBN 0850316812 (0-85031-681-2)
Hardcover, Intl Pub Marketing
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The Jungleby Upton Beall Sinclair, Arthur, Anthony (AFT), Jane JacobsISBN 0812976231 (0-8129-7623-1)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and social reform. [via]
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The Jungleby Janice Greene, Upton Beall Sinclair, Shelley MatheisISBN 0835910482 (0-8359-1048-2)
Softcover, Globe Fearon Co
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Kahawaby Donald E. WestlakeISBN 081251050X (0-8125-1050-X)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Kiss Her Goodbyeby Allan GuthrieISBN 0843953551 (0-8439-5355-1)
Softcover, Leisure Books
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The Last Mafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratiannoby Ovid DemarisISBN 0812909550 (0-8129-0955-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Last Matchby David DodgeISBN 0843955961 (0-8439-5596-1)
Softcover, Hardcase Crime
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The Law Enforcement Handbookby James Bailey, Desmond RowlandISBN 0816011478 (0-8160-1147-8)
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Legaciesby F. Paul WilsonISBN 0812571991 (0-8125-7199-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Lucky at Cardsby Lawrence BlockISBN 0843957689 (0-8439-5768-9)
Softcover, Hardcase Crime
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The Magdalen Martyrsby Ken BruenISBN 0863223028 (0-86322-302-8)
Hardcover, Brandon
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Matchstick Menby Eric GarciaISBN 0812968212 (0-8129-6821-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Mobspeak: The Dictionary of Crime Termsby Carl SifakisISBN 0816045496 (0-8160-4549-6)
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Monday the Rabbi Took Offby Harry KemelmanISBN 0816166528 (0-8161-6652-8)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Murder in America: A Historyby Roger LaneISBN 0814207332 (0-8142-0733-2)
Softcover, Ohio State University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in America: A History'Book summary:This book is the first serious study of the history of criminal homicide in America, reaching from precolonial times to the age of the O. J. Simpson trial. Noted historian Roger Lane provides this much-needed overview of the history of murder and our culture's responses to it. Lane demonstrates that the study of murder can provide important clues about the way society actually works, its fears and tensions, its concept of justice, and the value it places on different kinds of human life. Roger Lane simply asks the same questions of the past that we ask of the present: What causes murder rates to go up or down? How efficiently or fairly has the justice system worked in dealing with homicide? What are or have been the roles of economic difference and family structure, of the courts and the media, of the Wild West and the urban Industrial Revolution, of Indian warfare and African-American slavery? But if the questions are familiar, Lane shows us that the answers cannot be fitted neatly into boxes we now label either "liberal" or "conservative." They will surprise most readers. [via]
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Murder in the Smithsonian: A Novelby Margaret TrumanISBN 0816136319 (0-8161-3631-9)
Softcover, G.K. Hall
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Murder in the White House: A Novelby Margaret TrumanISBN 0816131716 (0-8161-3171-6)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Murder Makes the Wheels Go 'roundby Emma LathenISBN 0824049853 (0-8240-4985-3)
Hardcover, Garland Pub
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Murder on Embassy Row: A Novelby Margaret TrumanISBN 081613765X (0-8161-3765-X)
Softcover, G.K. Hall
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My Late Wivesby Carter DicksonISBN 0821723847 (0-8217-2384-7)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchuby Sax RohmerISBN 0854681728 (0-85468-172-8)
Hardcover, Tom Stacey Reprints Ltd
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New York Noir: Crime Photos from the Daily News Archiveby William Hannigan, Luc SanteISBN 0847821722 (0-8478-2172-2)
Hardcover, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New York Noir: Crime Photos from the Daily News Archive'Book summary:When Ruth Snyder was electrocuted at Sing Sing Prison in 1928, New York Daily News photographer Tom Howard was there--with a miniature camera he'd hidden under the cuff of his pants. The resulting snapshot made the front page the next morning (under the headline "DEAD!") and provoked fierce controversy among those wondering if tabloid journalism had finally gone too far. But, as Luc Sante points out in his introduction to New York Noir, a selection of pictures from the Daily News archives, the tabloids "retailed exclamation points"--Snyder in the electric chair was merely an extreme example of imagery that was a regular staple of the paper's coverage.
Many of the photos in New York Noir are not for the squeamish: corpses in the street or slumped in their car seats appear regularly, as do battered and bloodied criminals and suspects. But the power of these stark images is unmistakable--they are, as the book's title indicates, the raw material for the gritty vision of urban life that film noir popularized. For some people, tabloid crime photos are synonymous with Arthur "Weegee" Fellig; only one of his pictures graces these pages, however, and the other photographers represented here (many identified only by last name or no name at all) demonstrate that his reputation relies as much on promotional hustle as on artistic merit. Whenever possible, archivist William Hannigan supplies background information on the people and incidents in the pictures--but it is the images themselves, rather than the stories, that will stick in the reader's mind. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Odessa Fileby Elick MollISBN 0816160694 (0-8161-6069-4)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Out of This WorldISBN 0863073247 (0-86307-324-7)
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The Outfitby Richard StarkISBN 0850317622 (0-85031-762-2)
Hardcover, Intl Pub Marketing
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Outsider in Amsterdamby Janwillem Van De WeteringISBN 0816163421 (0-8161-6342-1)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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A Perfect Spyby John Le CarreISBN 0816141843 (0-8161-4184-3)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Pimpby Iceberg SlimISBN 0862415934 (0-86241-593-4)
Softcover, Canongate Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pimp: The Story of My Life'Book summary:A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu's Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim's life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. It is a trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale--the dangers of jail, addiction, and death that are still all too familiar for today's black community. By telling the story of one man's struggles and triumphs in an underground world, Pimp shows us the game doesn't change; it just has a different swagger.
Only Slim could tell this story and make the reader feel it. If you thought Hustle & Flow was the true pimp story, this book is where it all began. This is the heyday of the pimp, the hard-won pride and glory, small though it may be; the beginnings of pimp before it was dragged in front of the camera, before pimp juice and pimp style. Though it is a tale of his times, it will remain current and true for as long as there is a race bias, as long as there is a street life, as long as there is exploitation. [via]-
Pompeiiby Robert HarrisISBN 0812974611 (0-8129-7461-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pompeii'Book summary:All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empires richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The worlds largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii.
But the carefree lifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, and only one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared. Springs are failing for the rst time in generations. And now there is a crisis on the Augustas sixty-mile main linesomewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
Attiliusdecent, practical, and incorruptiblepromises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travel to Pompeii and put together an expedition, then head out to the place where he believes the fault lies. But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at workboth natural and man-madethreatening to destroy him.
With his trademark elegance and intelligence, Robert Harris, bestselling author of Archangel and Fatherland, re-creates a world on the brink of disaster.
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Price of Murderby John MacDonaldISBN 0848805690 (0-8488-0569-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James HoggISBN 0862413400 (0-86241-340-0)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner'Book summary:Written in 1824, James Hogg's masterpiece is a brilliant portrayal of the power of evil. Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The reader, while recognising the stranger as the Devil, is prevented by the subtlety of the novel's structure from finally deciding whether, for all his vividness and wit, he is more than a figment of the imagination. This is the only complete edition of Hogg's Confessions, since it was first published. All subsequent editions, until now, have altered the text or omitted both the engraved Frontispiece and the (fictional) Dedication. In his notes to the Canongate edition, David Groves discusses the significance of both, in terms of the novels structures and ironies. [via]
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The Rattle-Ratby Janwillem Van De WeteringISBN 0816141215 (0-8161-4121-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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River of Deathby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0816134014 (0-8161-3401-4)
Hardcover, G.K. Hall
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Robbie's Wifeby Russell HillISBN 0843957697 (0-8439-5769-7)
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Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernityby Lisa DugganISBN 0822326175 (0-8223-2617-5)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity'Book summary:On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamored to cover the ensuing girl lovers murder trial. Lisa Duggan locates in this sensationalized event the emergence of the lesbian in U.S. mass culture and shows how newly modern notions of normality and morality that arose from such cases still haunt and distort lesbian and gay politics to the present day.[via]
Situating this story alongside simultaneously circulating lynching narratives (and its resistant versions, such as those of Memphis antilynching activist Ida B. Wells) Duggan reveals how stories of sex and violence were crucial to the development of American modernity. While careful to point out the differences between the public reigns of terror that led to many lynchings and the rarer instances of the murder of one woman by another privately motivated woman, Duggan asserts that dominant versions of both sets of stories contributed to the marginalization of African Americans and women while solidifying a distinctly white, male, heterosexual form of American citizenship. Having explored the role of turn-of-the-century print mediaand in particular their tendency toward sensationalismDuggan moves next to a review of sexology literature and to novels, most notably Radclyffe Halls The Well of Loneliness. Sapphic Slashers concludes with two appendices, one of which presents a detailed summary of Wards murder, the trial, and Mitchells eventual institutionalization. The other presents transcriptions of letters exchanged between the two women prior to the crime.
Combining cultural history, feminist and queer theory, narrative analysis, and compelling storytelling, Sapphic Slashers provides the first history of the emergence of the lesbian in twentieth-century mass culture.More editions of Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity:
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Secret Agentby Joseph Conrad, Robert D. Kaplan, Peter Lancelot MalliosISBN 0812973054 (0-8129-7305-4)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Agent'Book summary:Edited and with Notes by Peter Lancelot Mallios
Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan
In reexamining The Secret Agent in a post-9/11 world, Robert D. Kaplan praises Joseph Conrads surgical insight into the mechanics of terrorism, calling the book a fine example of how a savvy novelist may detect the future long before a social scientist does.
This intense 1907 thrillera precursor to works by Graham Greene and John le Carréconcerns a British double agent who infiltrates a cabal of anarchists. Conrad explores political and criminal intrigue in a modern society, building to a climax that the critic F. R. Leavis deemed one of the most astonishing triumphs of genius in fiction. [via]More editions of Secret Agent:
The Secret of Father Brownby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0816139296 (0-8161-3929-6)
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Something Borrowed, Something Blackby Loren D. EstlemanISBN 081254546X (0-8125-4546-X)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0862411211 (0-86241-121-1)
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Studies in Murderby Edmund Lester PearsonISBN 081425022X (0-8142-5022-X)
Softcover, Ohio State Univ Pr
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Sweet and Lowby Emma LathenISBN 0816162611 (0-8161-6261-1)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Techniques of Crime Scene Investigationby Sherman Block, Barry A. J. FisherISBN 0849395062 (0-8493-9506-2)
Hardcover, CRC Pr I Llc
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyby John Le CarreISBN 0816162417 (0-8161-6241-7)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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The Tombby F. Paul WilsonISBN 0812580370 (0-8125-8037-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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True Crimeby Max Allan CollinsISBN 0812501527 (0-8125-0152-7)
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The Victorian Underworldby Kellow ChesneyISBN 0851170021 (0-85117-002-1)
Hardcover, Maurice Temple Smith Ltd
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Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident, and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphiaby Roger LaneISBN 0814250211 (0-8142-5021-1)
Softcover, Ohio State Univ Pr
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The Way to Dusty Deathby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0816161690 (0-8161-6169-0)
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Woodchipper Murderby Arthur HerzogISBN 0821731130 (0-8217-3113-0)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Xanadu Talismanby Peter O'DonnellISBN 0812586530 (0-8125-8653-0)
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