http://www.laybooks.com/ Lay Books Recently Added True Crime Book Titles en-gb Copyright www.laybooks.com - 2010 http://www.laybooks.com/img/rss_logo.gif http://www.laybooks.com/ http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12540 Softcover. SIGNED. Chapter headings include : Stand and Deliver, Trinity Tragedy, Wisbech Lust, Prisoners and Punishment, The Cambridge Cat Burglars, Newmarket Horse Poisoners, Counterfeit Currency, The St. Neots Assassin, The Wimpole Poachers, The Whittlesey Murder, The Chesterton Hawker, The Brampton Butcher, Spies Arrested in Willingham, Gypsy Jack Smith, The Story of Our Local Police etc., etc. Illus. 71pp. 4to. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. F. Popular Books 15 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12539 Softcover. SIGNED. As recently as the 19th century there were something like 250 offences that carried the death penalty. Standards of justice have not only varied over time, but also from place to place. The character and outlook of the Judge was often a deciding factor. The cases documented in this book are all connected with the county of Cambridgeshire. They cover a period of around 400yrs. Some incurred the death penalty. It is left to the reader to decide if justice was done in every instance. Chapter headings include : The Witches of Warboys, Burnt at Ely, The Alconbury Drummer Boy, The Hanging Judge of Wisbech, Thomas Weems of Godmanchester, Savage the Somersham Arsonist, Miser Minister Murdered, Horrific Deaths in Fenland, Wicken's Missing Bobby, Starving in Stilton, The St. Neots Poisoner, Who Was the St. Ives Murderer?, Murder at Kings, Crime of Passion at Broughton etc., etc. Illus. 60pp. 4to. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. F. Popular Publications 15 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12538 Softcover. Chapter headings include : The Bloody Borders, Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch, Half-hanged MacDonald, The Butchers of Hexham, Kidnappers and Keelmen, A Ride to the Gallows, Corpses and Coins, The Birtley Ripper (William Waddell), The Widow of Windy Nook, The Tale of Prisoner 515538, Absolute Power (T. Dan Smith/John Poulson) + much more. Illus. 102pp. 4to softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Northeast Press 9 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12537 Softcover. Includes perhaps the oldest murder story on Wearside - and the strangest - the killing of Anne Walker in 1631 + Sunderland highwayman Robert Drummond, Lady Peat, William Jones, cracksman Arthur Armstrong, Molly Moselle, Billy Johnson + much more. Illus. 96pp. 4to. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. Sunderland and Hartlepool Publishing 10 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12536 Softcover. SIGNED. A dossier aimed at the collector and not the general reader of Ripper material. A comprehensive Bibliography with, where applicable, approximate values of books, which includes the majority of important and best works. At the time an invaluable reference work, which was nicely produced in an A4 comb-binder. Nr. F. SIGNED BY ROSS STRACHAN. Privately Printed (Ross Strachan) 25 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12535 Hardback. SIGNED. Northamptonshire is rich in historical criminal activity, and the documents that record it. Using these records, the author has written a fascinating and comprehensive picture of the murkier doings of his county's ancestors. Features : murder and manslaughter, arson and criminal damage, assaults, assaults on police, bare knuckle prize fights, burglary, drunkenness, heresy, organised criminal gangs, poaching, rape and sexual offences, riot and public order, robbery, theft, treason, vagrancy, witchcraft. Also includes Policing in Northamptonshire; Trials and Courts in Northamptonshire; Capital punishment, with a complete list of all judicial executions ever to have been held in Northamptonshire; Prisons in Northamptonshire, and other punishments used in Northamptonshire. Illus., Appendices, Sources and Bibliog. + Index. 200pp. lge. 8vo. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in f. dw. Peg and Whistle Books (Kettering) 12 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=11536 Softcover. The forbidding term 'gallows' or that of capital punishment was brought to mind for anyone as they passed in front of the prison entrance and forbidding walls on Wandsworth Common. The public was fascinated with the newspaper accounts of the trials of those that are household names and are synonymous with those condemned to death, William Joyce, John Haigh, the acid bath murderer or the unfortunate Derek Bentley. This book explains for the first time, the routines and discipline required in prison for the execution of murderers, traitors and spies. This is a necessary historical account of what took place in the capital punishment of 135 people over the 83 years Wandsworth Prison had the gallows. Where the information is available, the crimes for which they were sentenced have been included. The executioners have been given due mention for they were just doing a job that many would have shunned. The mechanical aspects of the gallows are explained and the methods employed to ensure a swift and clean death. Whether the state was justified to execute anyone is not discussed within this book. This is a factual record of what was necessary to carry out the judicial process to its maximum conclusion and is welcomed for its historical account of what took place within the prison walls. Illus., Appendices, Bibliog. and Index. 272pp. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. HMP Wandsworth 15 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12534 Paperback. Chapter headings include : Executions In Bodmin, The Tin Trade, During the French Wars, Suffragette Scare, Place Names, The Gallant Major-General, Tradesmen's Tokens, St. Lawrence Fair, Bodmin in Song And Verse, The Post Office Service, Other Bodmins, Horse-Drawn Transport, Rather Queer, Bits and Pieces + much more. Illus. 96pp. p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V.v. lightly sunned o/w Nr. F. Scarce. Bodmin Books 15 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12533 Paperback. Unlike most prisons thoughout the World, which have survived for 100s of years as permanent reminders to the human race that they must obey the rules of the controlling power, the Kirkdale House of Correction, to give it its official title, lasted less than 100 yrs, during the 19th century being built on open land in what is now the centre of Liverpool. First occupied in 1819 and completed in 1821, it was appointed "The House of Correction for the Hundred of West Derby in the County of Lancashire". Before 1819 prisoners of the Hundred were lodged in the Borough Gaol of Liverpool but this was found to be too small and inconvenient for administration. This problem being caused not only by the rapid growth of the prison population but the necessity to "collect for shipment" the thousands of people sentenced to be transported to "Lands across the Seas". Increased pressure on penal establishments, combined with the work involved in attending to the execution of felons, was caused by the great unrest and riots in the Country and petty thieving for food that living conditions necessitated. The governing political parties of the time, combined with the land and property owners in electing the judiciary, ensured that any threat to property, by either word or deed, was ruthlessly crushed. It was the implementation of the "law" that filled the existing prisons and resulted in the building of The Kirkdale House of Correction. It was within this building, during its short existence, that the executive ensured that many of the greatest of British intellectual minds were imprisoned (which often also meant death) or transported to Australia. At the end of the 19th century, the building was flattened to the ground and in an effort to remove its history many of the records applying to its existence were destroyed, misplaced or stored in archives far away from its original location in Liverpool. It was with difficulty that these records were located, analysed and checked, to give an idea of the life and times of the prison itself and the people who, in some little way, either by choice, or without the option, were involved in its brief, but horrific history. With Source Material and References. 64pp. p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Nr. F. The Gallery Press (South Wirral) 15 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12532 Paperback. SIGNED. This book is a collection of interesting facts concerning all recorded executions in Nottinghamshire. There is no doubt that in the olden days, before records were kept, there must have been a number of executions but of those unfortunately, nothing will ever be heard. The main sources of information have been "Wilson's Gallows Hill Remembrancer", "Executions in Nottingham" printed by Sutton Bros. in 1860, and from the mass of newspapers, books and documents held at the Local Studies Section of the County Library at Angel Row, Nottingham. Illus., Index. 62pp. p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Faded sp. o/w Vg+ Terry Lambley 5 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12531 Hardback. SIGNED. The ultimate collection of grisly tales from the gallows, guillotine and gas chamber in which the fairer sex gets it in the neck...From the tragic fate of Queen Marie Antoinette, who bravely faced the guillotine in front of a screaming mob, to the hastily improvised hanging of a sadistic mother and daughter team, this book is brimming with macabre true stories of executed women from around the world. Interspersed with quirky anecdotes both tragic and comic, plus contemporary illustrations, this is history at its most morbidly fascinating. Illus., Appendices, For the Record, Select Bibliog. + Index. 282pp. 12mo. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate, + loosely inserted postcard photograph of the author, in headsman's costume, holding a large axe, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR "To Wilf, Happy Reading!....Oct '02". F. in f. dw. Summersdale 25 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=10529 Hardback. The author's views on capital punishment. With Appendices which includes : Murder Statement for the Years 1900-1948. Prepared by the Home Office, 1949; Males Convicted of Murder Executed and Respited, 1900-48 Analysis by Age Statement Prepared by the Home Office, 1949; Summary of the Treatment in Prison and Release of Murderers in Abolitionist States; Miss Margery Fry's Statement on Mrs. Thompson's Execution. Plus Index. 159pp. Small format. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg. Lightly browned edges, covers Nr. F. in patchily sunned vg. dw. which has small tear to fr. hinge. Gollancz. 8 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12530 Hardback. A book which addresses the human dimension of one of the most central and intractable problems of our times. Who are the terrorists? What sort of individual wilfully creates the personal tragedies resulting from the killing and maiming of innocents? The authors offer a unique view of the way in which terrorists live and think, drawing on previously unpublished interviews with terrorists conducted over a period of 15 years. They include accounts from members of paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland, Arab and Islamic al-Jihad organisations and former members of the Italian Red Bridages, Baader Meinhof group and other European terrorist organisations describing not only their experiences but also how their activities affect others involved - their families, the police and the victims. Especially horrifying are the accounts of the attempted assassination of Bernadette Devlin and her family, and Nezar Hindawi's extremely cold blooded plan to 'detonate' an El-Al aeroplane using his pregnant girlfriend as the suitcase bomb carrier. Where possible the authors use either the actual or paraphrased words of terrorists to describe their own world and actions as they see them. Whilst many of the people interviewed are violent, and most have committed horrific and sometimes barbaric crimes, few if any fit the image in any technical sense of an abnormal individual. This is an uncomfortable conclusion. The reality of the terrorist is that they are eseentially unremarkable people, in psychological terms disturbingly similar to their victims. With Appendices, Chapter Notes and Index. 233pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in f. dw. Brassey's 25 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=11559 Hardback. SIGNED. A look at the sensational murder cases which have made the headlines during the last 20th century. Taking the century decade by decade, the author uses individual cases to show how changes have occurred in forensic science, the law, criminal investigation and the standing of the police. In the first 10 years of the century, for instance, the case of the Strattons marked a landmark in the use of fingerprint evidence and that of Dr Crippen heralded a new era in scientific detection. The hangings of Derek Bentley and Timothy Evans in the fifties marked the end of capital punishment and recognised a previously unaccepted fallibility in the judiciary that had allowed innocent men to hang for crimes they had not committed. The book demonstrates a century of evolution to murder, and looks at the nature of violence, methods of murder, scientific investigation, the impact of murder on society and the phenomenon of social violence. The author aims to go beyond the drama and horror of the crimes and to create a perspective on what makes people kill. An authoritative book which gives a balanced and objective view of this least understood facet of human behaviour. Also features : Oscar Slater, Browne and Kennedy, James Camb, Dr John Adams, James Hanratty, Carl Bridgewater, John Duffy, Colin Pitchfork and Beverely Allitt, Jack the Ripper, 'Jack the Stripper' amongst many, many others. Illus. + Index. 314pp. 8vo. Sl. browned pp. o/w covers F. in f. dw. With tipped-in label SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Headline 12 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12529 Paperback. Here, a famous criminal lawyer throughout Wales and the West Country, takes you behind the scenes in some of the sensational legal dramas of our times. Illus. 176pp. p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Vg. W.H. Allen 5 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12528 Hardback. Great defenders play their parts in historic trials both in Britain and other countries, and although the pattern is similar and familiar the facts are never the same. Every case is widely different. Each case contains its own virtue or its own vice, its own degree of innocence or guilt, and it's this variety, heightened by the clash of personalities, that makes the triumphs and failures of the great advocates absorbingly interesting. The great defenders who form the subject of this book include : Marshall Hall, Thomas Erskine, The Trial of the Double Tenth, Baron Birkett of Ulveston, Horatio Bottomley, Luang Art, Rufus Isaacs etc. With Index. 191pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Vg+ John Long 7 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=11152 Hardback. With a Statement by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A 37yr. old German Jew, Oscar Slater (real name Leschziner), was convicted of murder in Glasgow in a case which was proved later to be a miscarriage of justice. In May 1909, Oscar Slater stood trial for the brutal murder, on December 21, 1908, of elderly spinster Miss Marion Gilchrist. Despite the shaky evidence of identification, Slater was sentenced to death. He was later reprieved and sent to Peterhead Prison, where he served 18yrs. before being released, following growing public disquiet about his conviction. There were strong accusations against the Glasgow police, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Roughead campaigned vigorously for the inquiry which led to Slater's release. Slater was awarded £6000 compensation, and died in 1948. It is likely that a young relative of Miss Gilchrist was the guilty person. Illus. 186pp.12mo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. With pencil notes to eps and text. Browned pp. and eps, stained covers, sunned sp. A good reading copy. The Psychic Press. 30 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12527 Softcover. The book of the major Channel 4 TV series exposing miscarriages of justice and discovering new evidence to convince the courts to free the wrongfully convicted. Each investigation is a stranger-than-fiction tale of detection as well as a fascinating human story. Each takes us into dark and sometimes intimidating territory - the fringes of criminal society, the macabre world of forensic pathology, regions where the police are a law unto themselves. With the unique authority of those who have made it their life's work, the book tackles some of the reasons why justice miscarries. Featuring amongst others : Mary Durham who was convicted of murder because no jury could ever have imagined the chaotic and intoxicated world of the witnesses who gave evidence. Mark Cleary was convicted of murder on the psychopathic say-so of the true killer. Peter Fell convicted himself of murder by ringing up the police - but, pathetically, all he wanted was a bit of attention. Gary Mills and Tony Poole were convicted of a murder when all the evidence was corrupted, untrue or distorted - and the victim should never have died. Illus., Index. 210pp. 8vo. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Browned pp., no creases to covers. Vg+ Headline/Channel Four Television 4 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12525 Softcover. The trials have been selected more for the historical information which they contain than for any sensationalism connected with them. Contents include : Peter Young the Aberdeenshire Gipsy; Graham of Fintry - A Story of Mains Castle; The Wife o' Denside; The Boswell-Murder Trial; Malcolm Gillespie - A Romance of Aberdeen and, The Mystery of Craig-Crook. Illus. by Martin Anderson. 139pp. 8vo. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate, + the b/plate of a previous owner. Marked covers, fep has a clipped corner. G++. V. scarce. John Leng 100 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12524 Hardback. With Appendix. + 255pp. 12mo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. G+. Extremely scarce. J.W. Lawson (Aberdeen) 100 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12523 Paperback. 15 dramatic accounts of hits from across the world. They are shadowy figures who murder for money. Anonymous assassins who ruthlessly carry out the evil desires of others. They slip in and out of people's lives without fear or feeling. They are the contract killers. Illus. 229pp. mass market p/b. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Vg+ Boxtree 5 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12522 Hardback. Featuring amongst others : Paul Jones (the Englishman who became an American citizen and who invaded England in command of a man-of-war); Prince Hari Singh, the Richardson and Kray gangs, hi-jackers and sky-jackers etc. With Index. 175pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Nr. F. in vg+ dw. Long 15 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=3277 Hardback. 38 cases which include : Gold-dust Teddy, Chicago May, Mignon, Jim the Penman, H.H. Holmes, George von Weissenfield (anarchist millionaire), Belle Gunness, Adam Worth, "Bluebeards", Ned Kelly, Bela Kiss, London Fire Ring, Secret Poisoners, Body-Snatchers, Stinie Morrison + much more. 263pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Ex-Boots library. Browned pp. and edges, bowed covers, general wear. A good reading copy. G. Stanley Paul. 10 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=9409 Hardback. A group of "unfinished" murder cases. The author uses the word "unfinished" deliberately as opposed to "unsolved". In 2 of the cases featured (Wallace and Dr.Knowles), there was a conviction. In both cases, however, the convictions were subsequently quashed and the accused went free. 'Thus neither of these cases can be said, in the fullest sense of the word, to have been finished, since nobody paid the ultimate legal penalty for the crime.' Other cases featured include : Louisa Maud Steele (1931); Margery Wren (1930); Agness Kesson (1930); Evelyn Foster (1931); + others. 270pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned edges. Vg. Sampson, Low. 20 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12521 Hardback. Featuring 30 cases which include amongst others : Bela Kiss (Hungary); Browne & Kennedy/PC Gutteridge (Essex); Voirbo (Paris); Rajpah/Col. Collingwood (India); Vernon Booher (Alberta); Peltzer/Bernays (Belgium); Podmore/Messiter (Southampton); Franssen/Bohner (New York); Eyraud/Gouffe (Lyons); Carew/Carew (Japan); McLachlan/McPherson (Scotland); Fisk & Robertson/Tucker Peach (Yukon); The Great Pearl Mystery (London); Lampere/Gunness (Indiana) + many more. Illus., Index. 286pp. 8vo. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Browned edges, sunned covers and sp. G++. Very scarce. Stanley Paul 25 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12520 Hardback. Intro' by John Holland Cassity. Including A Historical Survey of Sex Savages and Sexual Savagery in the East by Allen Edwardes. This study of sexual crimes and criminals in history is primarily concerned with the "extreme acts" - sadistic mutilation and cannibalism, torture and vampirism, lust-murder and necrophilia. The authors present "pages of blood and terror" in an exploration of sexual violence and the interrelationships of pain, death, and erotic gratifiation. Includes amongst others : Gilles de Rais, Countess Elisabeth Bathory, Sergeant Bertrand and Princess Belgiojoso, Grossmann, Haarmann, Kuerten, Jack the Ripper + many others. Also appended to the volume is a long story, 'The Writer and the Black Beauty' by R.E.L. Masters. This "fictional exploration of the necrophile phantasy" is probably one of the most remarkable pieces of writing produced by an American author. With Notes and Appendices. 323pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. This special Mid-Century edition is identical to the trade edition published simultaneously under the title 'Sex Crimes in History.' From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Browned pp. and edges, Vg. in poor frayed, chipped and sunned dw. The Julian Press 15 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=5027 A guide to the oddities of our legal system, past and present. Contents include : Bizarre Bequests, Crime and Coronets, Curious Cases, Punishments of Yesterday etc. Illus. by David Langdon. 48pp. 16mo. Nr. F. Reader's Digest 1 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=9901 Hardback. In his first chapters, the author examines the Victorian delight in murder as a social phenomenon. The remainder of the book is constructed around classic murder cases that afford a vivid perspective of the way people lived - and died - in the Age of Victoria. Includes amongst others : Blomfield, Rush, Palmer, Smethurst, Pritchard, Madeleine Smith, Jessie M'Lachlan, Muller, Wainwright, Webster, Peace, Bartlett, Maybrick, Cream, Chapman, Dougal etc. Illus., Notes on Sources and Index. 336pp. 8vo. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned edges, o/w Vg+. No dw. Dent. 10 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=9312 Hardback. Undiscovered murders are thought by experts to outnumber those recorded. Scotland Yard has estimated that only 1 poisoner in 4 is ever brought to trial, and a third of all discovered murders in Britain stay unsolved. But there is one very special class of murderer: it consists of people who have killed, whose identities are known and who have nevertheless escaped retribution. Some of them have never so much as seen the inside of a courtroom. Some watched innocents convicted in their stead for the crimes that they committed. Some even stood trial and were acquittted before the law. Cases featured include : Charlie Peace, John Donald Merrett (aka Ronald Chesney), Constance Kent, Harold Loughans, Frederick Field, Henriette Caillaux, Mme. Fahmy, Elvira Barney, Brian Donald Hume, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde, Jeanne Weber, Styllou Christofi, Jessie McLachlan, Belle Gunness, Bela Kiss, Arnold Walder, Timothy Evans/Reginald Christie, etc. 200pp. 8vo. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. lightly browned pp. o/w Vg+ in sunned sl. chipped vg. dw. Allen. 8 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12519 Hardback. The author attempts to present an adequare and faithful account of the part women actually play in crime. It was possibly the first time a work had been devoted exclusively to the female criminal. Contents include : Part One - Woman As A Criminal; Part Two - The Organisers of Crime (the poisoners, murder by violence, the baby-farmers, Euphrasie Mercier, the vitriol throwers, the financial defrauders); Part Three - The Aiders and Abettors (the Stauntons, Mrs McLachlan, Mme Muravoiva, Mme Guerin etc.). Illus. + Index. 306pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Fr. and back hinge beginning to show, marked and soiled covers, browned edges. G+ Werner Laurie 35 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=3334 Hardback. In 2 volumes. British detective practice from various contributors, which include : Reginald Arundel (Police Dogs); Robert Churchill (Firearms); Alfred Crutchett (The Detective at Work); Capt. W.J. Hutchinson (Photography); C. Ainsworth Mitchell (Science and the Detective); H. Fletcher Moulton (Circumstantial Evidence); J.F. Moyland (The Metropolitan Police); Leonard A. Parry (Medical and Surgical Evidence); Sydney A. Smith (The Pathologist and the Detective); John Stark (The City of London Police); Albert Ward (Dock Detectives); W. Lloyd Woodland (Provincial Detective Forces and The Constable and The Criminal) + others, all in Vol. 1. Vol. II features : Austen Allen (The Newcastle Train Murder and Yarmouth Beach Murder); Frank C. Betts (The Bournemouth Murder and The Fox Case); F. Tennyson Jesse (The Armstrong Case and The Dougal Case); Leonard A. Parry (Crippen); W. Lloyd Woodland (The Podmore Case); W. Teignmouth Shore (The Gutteridge Murder + Some Cases of Identification) + others. Illus., Index. 277 and 256pp. respectively. 4to. h/back. Faded sp. on each, faint mks. to upper cover of Vol I, and a tiny split to head of sp. of Vol II, o/w Nr. Vg+. Scarce 1st edn. Two volumes weigh in excess of 2kg. Gresham. 30 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=10547 Softcover. Anthropophagy - the eating of human flesh - is the crime which shocks and stuns more than any other. The author traces this phenomenon back to the 16th-century to the notorious Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean who, together with his family, consumed more than 1000 people over a period of 25-yrs. In the 20th-century little has changed.The author looks at modern murderers, including Fritz Haarmann, Jeffrey Dahmer, Edward Gein, and Andrei Chikatilo etc..Their crimes and others are explored together with speculation about how such monsters are made. Is there a clinical explanation for vampirism? And when it come to deciding whether these people are sane or insane, why are psychiatrists and lawyers not always in agreement? With Bibliog. and Index. 191pp. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. Hale. 6 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12516 Paperback. Contents include : The Cleveland Borgia; The Jekyll-Hyde Case; King of the Race Track Ringers (Peter Christian Barrie); Chicago's Bluebeard (H.H. Holmes); The Murdering Masquerader (Dale and Margie Jones); Death in the Churchyard (August Franssen). 168pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with h1is personal b/plate. Vg. Penguin Signet (NAL) 5 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=11611 Booklet. SIGNED. To quote from Ross Strachan's excellent 'The Jack the Ripper Handbook' : 'A scarce and collectable nineteen page booklet where the author decides that the two most likely candidates would seem to be Pedachenko and Druitt, although there is not substantial evidence to warrant a conviction.' With Bibliog. 19pp. booklet. With tipped-in label SIGNED BY RICHARD WHITTINGTON-EGAN. Paper wraps. Not the numbered limited edn., but a copy. Still scarce. Vg+ The Contemporary Review 40 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12515 Hardback. In this book the author goes 'to the lonely places' showing that passions mount no less violently there than in the streets of big cities. He takes the reader firstly to the murder-scene, embarking on a chilling journey through fear, avarice and passion to the eventual climax of death. The compelling stories include dramas that range from an Australian goldfield to a high pass in the Tyrol, from the Canadian prairie to a seagirt cove in Ireland, from death winging through tthe clouds at hundreds of miles an hour to death waiting across a frozen river. From a London common to a park outside Paris, from a field in East Anglia to a field in Wales, from a human torch lighting the dawn in New Jersey to a human foot reaching through the shingle of a Sussex beach. These are cases that in their time were causes celebres. Today they have become classics of premeditated evil. Featuring amongst others : The Drummonds, Field & Gray, Steinnie Morrison, PC Gutteridge, Vernon Booher, Henri Pineau, Ronald Harries, George O'Brien, August Sangret, William Kirwan, Henry Colin Campbell, Joseph Albert Guay, Treffene & Coulter, etc. Illus. 189pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Vg+ in G+ dw. which has lge. piece of lower 'blurb' torn away. Jenkins 7 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12514 Hardback. The author presents an emotional and economic picture of the outstanding crimes of violence in many of the great cities of the world. Murder spanning the world 'in a scarlet thread of tragedy'; here is humanity at its worst, operating in the grimly sordid areas which cling to the skirts of every great city. Includes Fernandez/Beck, Jean-Marie Lefebre, Georges Lacroix/Robert Vernon, Gordon Cummins, Merrett/Chesney, Bela Kiss, Haigh, Ruth Ellis, etc. 192pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. lightly browned edges o/w Nr. F. in vg+ dw. Jenkins 9 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12513 Paperback. No. 5 in the True Crime Library Series. The story of perhaps the most remarkable man in the annals of British organised crime. At the zenith of his awesome power, Darby Sabine had 300 armed men under his command. With judges, politicians and senior policemen in his pay he created the most lucrative criminal empire ever seen in Britain. Illus. 233pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned edges. No creasing to covers. Nr. F. True Crime Library 4 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12512 Softcover. SIGNED. Foreword by Freddie Foreman The Managing Director of British Crime. The crimes within this book are just about all motor vehicle related crimes featuring Faggo and Co. Richard 'Faggo' Dodd was the most daring member of a £3.5m Regional Ramraid Gang who were given a total of 33 years behind bars. Illus. 194pp. 8vo. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. Mirage Publishing 4 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12510 Softcover. Foreword by Charlie Richardson. The true story of a reformed gangster who founded one of the most successful charities in Northern England. Approved School, Borstal and a long term of imprisonment in some of Britain's toughest prisons would have demoralised most people - but not George Craig. George is one of the new generation of Social Entrepreneurs: he has established, against all odds, a sustainable social enterprise - The Lazarus Centre. George understood the problems of drug addiction through the personal experience of a family member and refused to be prevented from establishing a much needed facility. He started a drug and alcohol service with great skill and determination. The authorities that had previously shunned him were stunned when the Centre opened its doors for clients. George had shown by his personal selfless determination that people can do the impossible. Illus. 209pp. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. Ghostwriters UK 10 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12509 Paperback. What makes a criminal mastermind turn King Squealer? The story of Maurice O'Mahoney is shocking and unique. A criminal by the age of 10, he was involved in nearly every type of crime known to man, ranging from lorry hi-jacking and bank raids to highly professional burglaries and wage snatches. Then the crunch came and O'Mahoney turned Queen's Evidence. He informed on more than 200 crooks involved in crimes totalling over two million pounds. O'Mahoney faced life on the run. A £20,000 underworld contract was taken out on his life and he lived in constant fear of being tracked down and savagely killed. He went to enormous lengths to avoid identification, regularly changing his appearance and the car he drove. This book is an insight into the mind of a dangerous criminal and an account of the momentous events which led him to 'talk' to the police. 216pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wiulfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. with no creasing to covers. Sphere 20 http://www.laybooks.com/detail.asp?b=12508 Hardback. SIGNED. Foreword by Paul Ravilious. The first in a series of Bronson books. Poet from Hell. Chapter headings include : Madness; All in a days work; Insanity; Prison Toys; Great Guys; A Crazy World. Profusely Illustrated in colour and b/w by Charles Bronson. 78pp. small 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. With tipped-in label INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CHARLES BRONSON, reading : "Prison Governors mean Paediphiles (sic) to me". Also SIGNED BY THE EDITOR. Pictorial glazed covers. F. Extremely rare with these signatures., Mirage Publishing 50