London: Bodley Head, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on both historical criminal trials and more contemporary ones. Includes a series of The Lizzie Borden Memorial Lectures and other pieces. Second state with chapter on James Hanratty, . 222 pp

New York: Mysterious Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on both historical criminal trials and more contemporary ones. Includes a series of The Lizzie Borden Memorial Lectures and other pieces. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-892962380.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1987). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on both historical criminal trials and more contemporary ones. Includes a series of The Lizzie Borden Memorial Lectures and other pieces. One of 250 copies of the first edition numbered and SIGNED by Ambler on the limitation page. Specially bound in burgundy cloth with gold lettering in a matching slipcase. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-892962380.

Salt Lake City: Northwest Publishing, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Ten years after Champagne's supposed death in a boating accident, he is arrested for printing counterfeit currency. He didn't fake his death, he claims - he just didn't deny it, seizing it as an opportunity to become in death one thing he had never been - an adventurer. A very funny true crime story. INSCRIBED on the title page. 182 pp. ISBN: 1-569018154.

New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. Hardcover - A combination of mystery and travel book, this is an account of a 1981 murder in Savannah, Georgia and its aftermath. Basis for the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-679-429220.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. dj. Hardcover first edition - An overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society by the former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New Yorkm based on case histories and his personal experiences. Index. xvi, 345 pp. ISBN: 978-0525521129.

New York: Times Books, (1964). A study of professional killers, or mass murderers. Included are William Burke and William Hare in Scotland, who turned from being 'body snatchers' to providing the bodies; George Joseph Smith who focused on killing women in tin baths in turn of the century England, Desire Landru, Fritz Haarmann, and Jean-Baptiste Troppmann. New preface by the editors of the Time Reading Program and introduction by Fredric Wertham for this edition. xx, 254 pp.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (2000). Between 1788 and 1790, a century before Jack the Ripper, a bizarre serial attacker known as the London Monster assaulted more than 50 women, until an unlikely suspect was caught, tried, and convicted after two sensational trials. Using sensational newspaper accounts, pamphlets, broadsides, and illustrated posters that virtually covered every house and lamppost, this is a thorough account of the attacks, the victims, the witnesses, the capture, the trials, and indeed the entire spectrum of such crimes right up to the millennium - it looks at whether or not Williams could have actually been guilty and even whether or not the Monster existed.Includes a list of "the cost", illustrations and extensive notes. xi, 227 pp.

New York: Random House, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Subtitled Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat -the second book, non-fiction, by this Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and mystery writer.

New York: Random House, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third book - the second book of non-fiction, true accounts of both crime and courage in MIami - by this Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and mystery writer. 327 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-575520.

New York: Random House, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third book - the second book of non-fiction, true accounts of both crime and courage in MIami - by this Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and mystery writer. 327 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-575520.

New York: Random House, (1965.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A fascinating account of the killers responsible for the apparently senseless murder of the four members of the Clutter family in rural Kansas. This book essentially created a new form - the non-fiction novel - and is Capote's most important and enduring work. Harper Lee, his lifelong friend and the author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' collaborated with Capote on his research for this book. Winner of the Edgar award, basis for several movies. 343 pp.

New York: Norton, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Reconstruction of a fascinating murder case in Boston: "A distraught father walks into the newsroom of the Boston Herald asking for help in locating his missing daughter, a breautiful commercial artist named Robin Benedict...Benedict is actually a high-paid prostitute in Boston's Combat Zone. The suspect is the eminent anatomist Dr. William Henry James Douglas who, it is learned, has been embezzling funds from his laboratory at Tufts University to support his costly entanglement with Benedict." Photographs, bibliography. 474 pp. ISBN: 0-393025691.

London: Oxford University Press, 1959. dj. Hardcover first edition - An attempt to solve the mysteries surronding this 17th century murder trial in which 3 people were hanged for the death of a man who reappeared 2 years later. Includes 2 of the best known previous attempts by John Paget and Andrew Lang, as well as new contributions by Maugham and Davis. Index. 155 pages.

New York: British American Publishing, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A dramatized, but factual, account by a former FBI agent of the story of decorated Air Force Major James Arlon Call's descent into a life of crime and murder and his role as the 'bushy-haired man' the killer of Marilyn Sheppard, a murder where her husband, Sam Sheppard, was originally convicted. SIGNED on the front endpaper 'with admiration and appreciation.' Extensive notes, exhibits, photographs. 507 pp. Schematic timeline on the rear endpapers. ISBN: 0-945167-504.

New York: British American Publishing, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A dramatized, but factual, account by a former FBI agent of the story of decorated Air Force Major James Arlon Call's descent into a life of crime and murder and his role as the 'bushy-haired man' the killer of Marilyn Sheppard, a murder where her husband, Sam Sheppard, was originally convicted. Extensive notes, exhibits, photographs. 507 pp. Schematic timeline on the rear endpapers. ISBN: 0-945167-504.

New York: Pantheon, (1994.) dj. An account of the lives of Abby Sage, a beautiful actress, and the Civil War journatlist Albert Deane Richardson, who was murdered in 1869 by Daniel McFarland the abusive and jealous husband of Sage. Based in large part on letters, trial affidavits and old newspaper accounts. Notes, Illustrated. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-679-433988.

New York: Henry Holt, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A behind the scenes look at one of the country's most high-profile homicide detective units as they follow six of its toughest, most controversial and interesting cases, including the case of Bonnie Lee Bakley whose murder ended up in the arrest of her husband, the actor Robert Blake . SIGNED on the title page. Photographs, epilogue, notes. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-6798-1.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a nonfiction account of a team of homicide detectives - veteran Pete Razanskas and Marcella Winn, a street smart young black woman who grew up in the 'hood herself - and their day to day work in South Central Los Angeles. SIGNED on the front endpaper. Photographs, notes. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-68480235X.

New York: Henry Holt, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A behind the scenes look at one of the country's most high-profile homicide detective units as they follow six of its toughest, most controversial and interesting cases, including the case of Bonnie Lee Bakley whose murder ended up in the arrest of her husband, the actor Robert Blake SIGNED on the title page. Photographs, epilogue, notes. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-6798-1.

New York: Harper & Row, (1969). A well documented and comprehensive study. Includes a two page spread with the New York Police Departmen chart of crime families. Notes, glossary, index. xiii, 367 pp.

New York: McCall Publishing Co., (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Five of the world's great detectives - policemen from Germany, France, the Netherlands, the UK and the United States - reveal how they solved their most extraordinary cases. Illustrated with photographs. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-841500452.

New York: Citadel / Kensington, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Meet the men who murdered for the mob and made John Gotti the most powerful and deadly crime boss in America . . .In his short reign as the head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti racked up a lifetime of charges from gambling, extortion, and tax evasion to racketeering, conspiracy, and five convictions of murder. Surrounding himself with a rogues gallery of contract killers, fixers, and enforcers, he built one of the richest, most powerful crime empires in modern history." Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. vi, 278 pp. ISBN: 978-0806539133.

New York: Vintage Books, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - A collection of 11 short pieces on crime, murder and corruption originally published in GQ magazine. Includes "Out of the Past"; "My Mother's Killer"; "The Tooth Crime"; "The Seduction of OJ"; "Bad Boy of Tinseltown"; "Body Dump" and two novellas, "Hollywood Shakedown" and "Tijuana, Mon Amour." SIGNED on the title page. Cover design by Chipp Kidd. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70471X.

New York: Vintage Books, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - A collection of 11 short pieces on crime, murder and corruption originally published in GQ magazine. Includes "Out of the Past"; "My Mother's Killer"; "The Tooth Crime"; "The Seduction of OJ"; "Bad Boy of Tinseltown"; "Body Dump" and two novellas, "Hollywood Shakedown" and "Tijuana, Mon Amour." INSCRIBED on the title page. Cover design by Chipp Kidd. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-375-70471X.

New York: British Book Centre, (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An intimate record of night life in London, and a selection of crime stories from the case book of Ex-Superintendent Robert Fabian." An interesting book, although when he talks about the horrors of young girls become addicted to marijuana after smoking one cigarette, he loses a bit of credibility... Illustrated with photographs. 237 pp.

New York: Villard, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on extensive interviews with arson investigators, bomb technicians, hostage negotiators and others, this gives a close-up look at the real-life world of the police in a study of what goes into crime-scene investigations. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-679400362.