Crimes And Punishment : An Encyclopedia Of Aberant Behavior : Complete 20 Volume Set

by Jackson Morely Publisher : The Symphonette Press Year : 1973 Edition : First Pages : 2750 Condition : Near Fine Binding : Hardcover Price : $139.95

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The Symphonette Press, 1973-1974. FIRST EDITION. Complete twenty volume hardcover matched set. Measures 11” x 9”. Very good condition, pages bright and clean throughout, tight binding, edge wear. Maroon cloth with photo illustration on each cover. “Crimes and Punishment, An Encyclopedia of Aberant Behavior.” The set has hundreds of illustrations and stories about the famous and infamous crimes in history. Twenty well illustrated volumes with information about all the major, and many minor crimes and criminals. Editorial presentation by Jackson Morely. Some of the Chapters included: "Are You a Dominant Person," "The Crime Busters - How It All Started," "Jealousy," "The Crime Busters - The Great Escaper Who Became a Cop," "Kidnappers" (including the Lindbergh Baby case), "Lady Killers," "The Crime Busters - Trapped by those Tell-tale Traces," "Gangsters" (including Al Capone), A-Z of Crime (Alcatraz, Eugene Aram, Benedict Arnold, Assassination, Ma Barker. "The Alibis," "The Crime Busters - Flower of Death," "Unwanted Lovers," "The Crime Busters - The Pajama Girl," "The Cop Killers," "The Stick-up Men," "The Ones That Got Away," The Crime Busters - The Lie Detector," The A-Z of Crime: The Mounties, Murder Inc., Mutiny, Nero Newgate Prison. "Blackmail," "The Crime Busters - Atomic Spy," "Nearest and Dearest," "The Crime Busters - Drowning and Suffocation," "Murderous Millionaires," "The Crime Busters - The Sordid Affair," "The Will to Die," "Daughters of Cain," A-Z of Crime: Northumberland St. Tragedy, Operation Bernard, Old Bailey, Papa Doc, Pearl Harbour (Harbor). "Royal Blood," "The Crime Busters - Computer Crooks," "Children Who Kill," "Seduction," "The Crime Busters - The Grin of Death," "The Mass Murderers," "The Fireraisers," "The Crime Busters - The Agents of Destruction," A-Z of Crime: Peasenhall, Phoenix Park, Piltdown Man, Pinkerton, Prostitution. "A Hard Day at the Office," "The Savage Killers," "The Crime Busters - A Raging Thirst," "The protection Rackets," "Celluloid Sinners," "The Crime Busters - Who Killed Napoleon?" "One-Way Ticket," "The Crime Busters - A Trace of Arsenic," A-Z of Crime: Quisling, Madame Rachel, Rasputin, Resurrectionists, Rothstein. "False Prophets," "The Crime Busters - Mummy with a Pension," "Artists in Crime," "The Crime Busters - Mystery at Moat Farm," "Servants Who Slaughter," "They Cheated the Gallows," "Lethal Lawyers," "The Crime Busters - Prince of Fabricators," A-Z of Crime: Sacher Masoch, Marquis de Sade, Marconi Scandal, Siegal, St. Valentine's Day. "Homosexual Murders," "The Crime Buster - The Hiss of Death," "Dead Giveaways," "The Crime Busters - All The News That's Fit to Print," "Terror on the High Seas," "Jekyll and Hyde," "The Crime Busters - A Dose of Death," "Easy Prey," A-Z of Crime: Smugglers, South Sea Bubble, Spilsbury, Stone of Scone, Surete. "Robber Barons," "The Crime Busters - Interpol I," "Runaway Romeos," "The Crime Busters - Interpol II," "A Million to One Against," "The Crime Busters - Interpol III," "Ordeal by Parliament," "The Heirs of Murder," A-Z of Crime: Wainewright, Walder, Weare, Wild, The Wild Bunch. Master index included. Rare find in this condition and as complete set. Approximately 2750 pages.



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