Crime , Piracy and Smuggling Used Books - Here are the latest additions to the Crime , Piracy and Smuggling category of the Mary Ward Used Books catalogue http://www.marywardbooks.com/categories/116.html Harrap 1975: first edition hard cover in decorative dust jacket: 286 pages; b/w photographic illustrations. Synopsis: A detailed account and analysis of the unsolved Croydon poisoning mystery ( 1928-29), and the conclusions of a serious student of criminology . condition: very clean and good/ almost as new. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0245523995.html Reader's Digest 1968; hardback in dust jacket; plastic covering: 639 pages: Synopsis: This , The Reader's Digest book of Scandals and Scalawags is made up of 51 stories concerning fascinating characters of hoax and fraud who range from the patriot who stole his country’s symbol of freedom from Westminster Abbey to a clerk, who took in millions of dollars “ investing” small sums for his neighbors, and a dowdy lady pretending to be Andrew Carnegie’s daughter. The perpetrators of these ingenious crimes are a fascinating and various array of humanity: charming impostors of both sexes; ,young , old , rich, and those just aspiring to become rich, all devilishly cunning although sometimes seeming disarmingly simple: all chose their victims with diabolical cleverness. Their schemes involve impressive sources of funds- The Bank of England, leading Art Museums, Treasure-laden Spanish galleons, the Nazi overlord, Hermann Goring. The loot they gleaned was enormous, and their methods and motivations proof that fact can be more intriguing than fiction. Condition: ownership inscription: some small marks to end papers caused by plastic covering adhesive: overall very clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/mw0111011.htmlLittle Brown 1996: first edition hardback in dust jacket : 406 pages: b/w photographic illustrations. Synopsis: Using extensive access to the case notes, photographs, charts, data and personal recollections of Britain’s leading forensic pathologist Doctor West, the crime expert and author, Chester Stern has produced a comprehensive and fascinating, if sometimes gory, record of the most famous and controversial investigations undertaken by the pathologist. . Among the cases he investigated are The Death of Robert Maxwell; the shooting of W. P. C. Yvonne Fletcher; the Brighton Bombing : the Hide Park Bombing: the Hillsburough Disaster; the Kings Cross Fire; the Clapham Rail Crash ; the Body in Chichester Harbour: the serial killers Michael Lupo and Colin Ireland : other gangland killings; foreign enquiries;: suicides: murders ; domestic murders; deaths in custody; and child abuse. Condition: upper edge dust cover slightly rubbed: and with minute repair to dust cover spine : overall very clean - almost as new http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0316877883.html Weidenfeld and Nocolson 1991: first edition hardback in dust jacket:translated from the Russian by John and Elizabeth Roberts: 275 pages including index and 12 pages of black and white photographs. Synopsis: An expose of illegality. and organized crime In Russia during, and before the Gorbachev era ; tracing the growth and development of the Mafia, since its birth in the nineteen sixties when it emerged under the system of privilege set in place by Stalin . The author , feared and respected in the Soviet union for his courageous expose of illegality and organized crime while researching articles and this book, has often braved personal danger. This resulting work goes some way to providing an explanation of what is happening in Russia today. Condition: withdrawn library book with stickers to front end paper and dust cover spine. still very clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0297812025.html 184 pages- neat pencilled notes to small pertion of text and inside back cover- dust cover stressed behind transparent wrapper. book very clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0422730408.html Comments: pristine - as new- immediate dispatch . Format: Paperback. Pages: 160. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0854354042.html 303 pages.An autobiographical insight into the workings of Scotland Yard's Obscene Publications Branch. Invisible repair to front dust cover. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/1316853216.html An analysis of the worlds most infamous criminals. 80 pages numerous illustrations. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/1856051439.html 196 pages "A panorama of strange and exciting events that once occurred around the coasts and in certain parts of England and Wales. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/mw00425.html