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Callaghan, Greg: Bondi Badlands: The definitive story of Sydney's gay hate murders
Book Number: 47046
Allen & Unwin Pty LTD September 20, 2007 8vo softcover 272pp near fine. A thrilling and compelling story of a horrific series of crimes and one man's single-minded resolve to bring the killers to justice. With blood stains on the walkway and screams often heard late at night, the long concrete pathway skirting the cliff face between the beaches of Bondi and Tamarama in Sydney's Eastern suburbs was dubbed the Bondi Badlands - and it was here in the late 1980s that a handful of young men were dragged to their deaths after nightfall. The slow road to an overdue justice began when Detective Sergeant Stephen Page read a series of letters from a distraught mother of one of the victims. Painstakingly piecing together the dark mural of the murders, he revived the police investigation into the deaths, code-named Operation Taradale.
Keywords: Bondi Badlands The definitive story of Sydney's gay hate murders Callaghan Greg
Price: $55.00 |
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Hosseini, Khaled: The Kite Runner
Book Number: 47050
Bloomsbury January 1, 2007 8vo softcover 352pp creased spine otherwise very good.
Keywords: The Kite Runner Hosseini Khaled
Price: $12.00 |
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Gustafson, Gosta: Forensic Odontology
Book Number: 47684
London, Staples Press 1966 8vo. hardcover. 263pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, foxing to endpapers & outer page edges, owner's stamp on bottom edge, small owner's name inside front cover. / Very good, foxed d/w with small tear top of spine (repaired).
Keywords: Forensic Odontology crime teeth dentis dentistry
Price: $110.00 |
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Wilson, Colin: Clues!: A History of Forensic Detection
Book Number: 47683
Warner 1989 8vo. hardcover. 512pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w with small tear top corner.
Keywords: Forensic Detection crime
Price: $22.00 |
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Schultz, Donald O.: Criminal Investigation Techniques
Book Number: 47689
Gulf Publishing Co 1978 8vo illustrated boards, hardcover 220pp index, b/w illus. very good.
Keywords: Criminal Investigation Techniques Schultz Donald O
Price: $25.00 |
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Wilson, Colin: Written in Blood
Book Number: 47691
Equation 1989 8vo hardcover 512pp index, b/w illus. good+, page edges browned / very good d/w. In 44 B.C. a Roman doctor named Antistius performed the first autopsy recorded in history-on the corpse of murder victim Julius Caesar. However, not until the nineteenth century did the systematic application of scientific knowledge to crime detection seriously begin, so that the tiniest scrap of evidence might yield astonishing results-like the single horsehair that betrayed the sex murderer in New York's 1936 Nancy Titterton case. In this massive and compelling history of forensic detection, the internationally recognized criminologist Colin Wilson charts the progress of criminalistics from the first attempts at detecting arsenic to the development of an impressive array of such modern techniques as ballistic analysis, blood typing, voice printing, textile analysis, psychological profiling, and genetic fingerprinting. Wilson also explores the alarmingly modern phenomenon of serial sex crime with a discussion of notorious cases that includes Jack the Ripper, Lucie Berlin, Mary Phagan, the Black Dahlia, Charles Manson, and Peter Sutcliffe, the so-called Yorkshire Ripper. Wilson shows how the continual sophistication of forensic detection and the introduction of computerized information retrieval has increasingly stacked the odds against the sex killer. Whatever the case, Written in Blood never fails to enlighten and intrigue.
Keywords: Written in Blood Wilson Colin
Price: $18.00 |
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Basham, Richard, Tim Priest: To Protect and to Serve
Book Number: 48096
Sydney New Holland 2003 8vo hardcover 288pp index. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Police Australia New South Wales To Protect and to Serve Basham Richard
Price: $18.00 |
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Bouda, Simon: Crimes that shocked Australia
Book Number: 48490
Bantam Books 1991 4to softcover 170pp very good. Includes 80 crimes, from 1803 to 1989. Each crime has a copy of the newspaper front page reporting that crime.
Keywords: Crimes that shocked Australia Bouda Simon
Price: $18.00 |
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Cacciola, Domenico: The Second Father: An Insider's Story of Cops, Crime and Corruption
Book Number: 48491
University of Queensland Press April 1, 2010 8vo softcover 220pp very good. From Brisbane's sleazy Sin Triangle to drug busts in the wild Far North, this exposé from a former Queensland undercover cop reveals an underworld of crime and police corruption. Compelled into fighting for justice and honor after having grown up amongst racism and discrimination, Domenico ‘Mick' Cacciola joined the force in the 1960s as a "sleeper" whose job was to infiltrate illegal gambling dens. Throughout his tenure, the book reveals, he witnessed the ugly face of entrenched corruption, spied on suspected Communists, and used his muscle to break up illegal street marches. Breaking his 35-year silence, Cacciola exposes the truth behind Australia's most notorious era of crime and corruption in this remarkable memoir.
Keywords: The Second Father An Insider's Story of Cops Crime and Corruption Cacciola Domenico
Price: $18.00 |
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Horan, James D.: The Pinkertons : The Detective Dynasty That Made History
Book Number: 48618
Crown Publishers, New York, 1969. 8vo. hardcover. 564pp. index. very good. / Good+ d/w.
Keywords: america crime history politics civil war detectives
Price: $18.00 |
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