CRIMES OF THE YEAR

Hardback. Featuring 13 outstanding crimes committed within the year in different parts of the world. Chapter headings include : The Perfect Mystery (Isadore Fink); Scotland Yard's Latest (Vivian Messiter/William Henry Podmore); The Loving Son (Sydney Harry Fox); The Youth with Smiling Eyes (Roger Voron); A Grim Tale of Vienna Woods (Gustave Bauer); The Killer Who Laughed Last (Charles Barataud); Nemesis in Texas (Arthur D. Payne); The Mystery of Chung Yi Maio; The Drudge Who Turned Bandit (Irene Shrader/Glenn Dague/Joe Wells); A County of Crime (Herrin/Williamson County in southern Illinois); The Women of Nagyrev and Tiszakurt; Chicago Contributors (Capone and others); The Mad God of Palm Island (Robert Harry Curry). 354pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Browned pp., sl. sunned sp. Vg.