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9780786035335 | Pinnacle Books, September 3, 2013, cover price $7.99
9780786022014 | Pinnacle Books, March 1, 2011, cover price $6.99

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Product Description: Among the thirty-four cases covered are: Pamela Smart, a volunteer at a high school drug awareness program, who urged her fifteen-year-old lover and his friends to kill her husband; Nancy Kissel, an expat American in Hong Kong, who served her investment banker husband a strawberry milkshake laced with drugs, then clubbed him to death with a statue; and Celeste Beard, whose husband was disemboweled by her lesbian lover...read more

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9781848588325 | Arcturus Pub, September 1, 2012, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Among the thirty-four cases covered are: Pamela Smart, a volunteer at a high school drug awareness program, who urged her fifteen-year-old lover and his friends to kill her husband; Nancy Kissel, an expat American in Hong Kong, who served her investment banker husband a strawberry milkshake laced with drugs, then clubbed him to death with a statue; and Celeste Beard, whose husband was disemboweled by her lesbian lover.

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Product Description: Spanning murder cases from the beginning of the twentieth century to today, this is a must-read for fans of true crime and will also be compelling to mystery and thriller readers.  The contributors include Harold Schechter, Katherine Ramsland, Carol Anne Davis, Burl Barer, and other leading writers in this genre...read more
By R. Barri Flowers (editor)

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9781616145675 | Prometheus Books, July 24, 2012, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Spanning murder cases from the beginning of the twentieth century to today, this is a must-read for fans of true crime and will also be compelling to mystery and thriller readers.

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Product Description: Dr Harold Shipman may have been the most notorious of his ilk, but he was not alone. Despite the high regard in which they are held by society, doctors are driven by the same desires and needs as any other human being. And they are also susceptible to those demons that make murderers of some of us...read more

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9781906476649 | Gardners Books, April 11, 2012, cover price $25.35 | About this edition: Dr Harold Shipman may have been the most notorious of his ilk, but he was not alone.

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Product Description: In 1990 two men wearing police uniforms took over the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. They stole works by Degas, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Manet and got away with the biggest art heist in history. In 1997 Christopher Wallace, the influential rapper known as Notorious B...read more

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9781606522073 | Readers Digest, October 14, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In 1990 two men wearing police uniforms took over the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

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9781420503234 | 1 edition (Lucent Books, September 30, 2010), cover price $40.40

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Product Description: Spine-chilling Tales of the Ultimate Evil Deeds Murders have long made headlines, but only those with the most heartless betrayals, twisted lies, and gruesome crime scenes have earned a place in infamy. The Killer Book of Infamous Murders takes you behind the crime scene tape and into the heart of notorious and remorseless massacres...read more

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9781402237461, titled "The Killer Book of Infamous Murders: Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the World's Most Notorious Murders" | Sourcebooks Inc, March 1, 2011, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Spine-chilling Tales of the Ultimate Evil Deeds Murders have long made headlines, but only those with the most heartless betrayals, twisted lies, and gruesome crime scenes have earned a place in infamy.

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Product Description: Alone is the extraordinary account of Terry Jo Duperrault, who, at age eleven, survived four days on a raft in the middle of the ocean after her family was brutally murdered aboard a chartered sailboat.

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9780425242087 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, July 5, 2011), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Alone is the extraordinary account of Terry Jo Duperrault, who, at age eleven, survived four days on a raft in the middle of the ocean after her family was brutally murdered aboard a chartered sailboat.
9781223008400 | Midpoint Trade Books Inc, May 10, 2010, cover price $15.95 | also contains Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean, Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean, Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean | About this edition: Terry Jo Duperrault was 11 when her family was murdered at sea aboard a chartered sailboat off the coast of Florida.

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Product Description: Sure to fascinate anyone with an interest in true crime, this selection contains the most gruesome tales from this 185-year-old publication. Including "the horrible murder of a child by starvation," dreadful executions, foul tortures, and one of the earliest mentions of a now notorious killer who turned his victims into pies, it will chill all but the sturdiest of hearts...read more
By Cate Ludlow (editor)

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9780752452661 | History Pr Ltd, February 17, 2010, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Sure to fascinate anyone with an interest in true crime, this selection contains the most gruesome tales from this 185-year-old publication.

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Product Description: Included in this gruesome book is the shocking case from 1991 of Armin Meiwes, a German man who advertised on a website for 'young, well-built men aged 18-30 to slaughter'. Amazingly, he got a taker: one Bernd-Jurgen Brandes. Meiwes told investigators that he took Brandes back to his home, where his new friend agreed to have his penis cut off and flambeed for the pair of them...read more

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9781844544998 | Gardners Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $30.90 | About this edition: The eating of human flesh by a fellow human is utterly repulsive and abhorrent to most of us.

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9781844547784 | Gardners Books, July 31, 2009, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Included in this gruesome book is the shocking case from 1991 of Armin Meiwes, a German man who advertised on a website for 'young, well-built men aged 18-30 to slaughter'.

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Product Description: A blood-curdling compendium of truly odd crimes featuring murderous witches, mad scientists, and killer dwarves From the stomach-churning to the truly bizarre, the details of some of history’s weirdest and most shocking murder cases are collected in this enthralling volume...read more

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9781844546671 | John Blake, May 1, 2009, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: From the stomach-churning to the truly bizarre, the details of some of history’s weirdest and most shocking murder cases are collected in this enthralling volume.

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9781844549757 | John Blake, July 14, 2010, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A blood-curdling compendium of truly odd crimes featuring murderous witches, mad scientists, and killer dwarves From the stomach-churning to the truly bizarre, the details of some of history’s weirdest and most shocking murder cases are collected in this enthralling volume.

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Product Description: On June 3, 1991, an abandoned car was found on a busy stretch of highway near Newport Beach, California. Its owner, Denise Huber, seemed to have vanished off the face ot the earth. For three years her disappearance remained a mystery, inspiring one of the most intensive missing-persons searches in history...read more

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9780786011254 | Reprint edition (Pinnacle Books, November 1, 1999), cover price $6.50 | About this edition: Recounts the gruesome true story of the manhunt for, and subsequent trial of, thirty-seven-year-old John Famalaro, a twisted killer, who brutalized, tortured, and murdered a young woman and kept her in his freezer, along with 'trophies' from other female victims.
9780786022212 | Pinnacle Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: On June 3, 1991, an abandoned car was found on a busy stretch of highway near Newport Beach, California.
9780786005833 | Pinnacle Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: When the police find the nude body of Denise Huber, missing for three years, in a freezer in John Famalaro's truck and souvenirs from previous victims in his house, the police unleash a full-scale manhunt leading to a disturbing and horrifying court trial of a twisted and evil killer.

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A psychoanalyst's accounts of ten children under the age of eighteen who have murdered or participated in murder call attention to the roles played in the crimes by suffering, passion, and accident

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9780465032976 | Basic Books, June 1, 1976, cover price $18.76 | About this edition: A psychoanalyst's accounts of ten children under the age of eighteen who have murdered or participated in murder call attention to the roles played in the crimes by suffering, passion, and accident
9781223054599 | Basic Books, June 1, 1976, cover price $18.76

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9780300033069 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 1985), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A psychoanalyst's accounts of ten children under the age of eighteen who have murdered or participated in murder call attention to the roles played in the crimes by suffering, passion, and accident

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