THE GRAVESIDE COMPANION An Anthology of California Murders

Hardback. An anthology of famous murders committed in California. Each case has been carefully reconstructed by a member of the Mystery Writers of America. Here for the first time is the whole, unvarnished truth about Barbara Graham; the untold story of Mrs. Putney's lonely death in the Mother Lode country; the cock-eyed murder of Capt. Walter Wonderwell in Southern California; the classic crime of Burton Abbott and its strange sequel when the chief psychiatrist at San Quentin released his "revelations." Ideal for the amateur Sherlock Holmes, the psychologist, the legalistic loophole seeker, and, without doubt all proponents and opponents of capital punishment. Contributors include : David Magee, Lenore Glen Offord, Theodore Orchards, Stuart Palmer, M.D. Shipley, Miriam Allen deFord, Jean Muir. 309pp. 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 sl. sunned Vg. pcdw.