THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF TRUE CRIME

Softcover. With more than 70 chapters on every aspect of crimes and criminals, this vast collection includes subjects as varied as alibis, arson, blackmail, con men, dominance, dual personality, headless corpses, hired killers, killer couples, ladykillers, manic messiahs, mass murderers, parent killers, perverts, protection rackets, sabotage, stranglers, sleep-walking slayers, train murders, victims and vital clues. The author also analyses some of history's most infamous crimes and their perpetrators: the Moors Murderers, William Heirens and the Chicago sex killings, the Lindbergh baby case, Machine Gun Kelly, John Christie and the death house at 10 Rillington Place, the Dusseldorf Sadist and other horrors. He also includes many unusual cases from the backwaters of crime: the man who achieved sexual pleasure from derailing trains, the shoemaker who crucified himself, Vidocq the police spy who founded the French Suretee, the woman who impersonated the Pope, and the painter who poisoned 12 bankers. 630pp. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Browned pp. o/w Nr. F. with no creasing to covers.