TRUE CRIME True Stories of the World's Infamous Murderers, Thieves and Con-Men

Softcover. The author presents a rogue's gallery of murderers and mobsters, cannibals and con-men, outlaws and assassins. The men and women for whom law and life had little value. The monsters for whom killing was a way of life. Superbly illustrated with the pick of the unique crime collection of Getty Images, the book opens up the files on over 100 of the most notorious crimes and criminals in history. The Criminals: Al Capone, Son of Sam, Jack the Ripper, the Butcher of Lyon, the Manson Family, Mata Hari, the Kray Twins, Baader Meinhof, the Rostov Ripper and dozens more. The Victims: Franz Ferdinand, John Lennon, the Lindberghs, JFK, Bluebeard's wives, Count Kamarovsky. The Crime Scenes: Sidney Street, the Munich Olympics, 10 Rillington Place, Saddleworth Moor, Waco, Jonestown, Braybrook Street. The Weapons: Dr. Petiot's home-made gas chamber, John Haigh's acid bath, the lynch mob's rope, Harold Shipman's doctor's bag, the brutal hands of the Vampire of Dusseldorf. Here are the serial killers who terrorised entire cities, the men and women who killed for love, the gangsters who conducted their business with a gun, the desperate who tried to live outside the law. And here too are the men and women who tracked them down, turned them in, tried them, and brought an abrupt end to their lives of crime. Profusely Illus. in colour and b/w + Index. 304pp. trade size soft cover. F.