True stories
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True stories
Paperback. Two spectacular dead bodies-Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, and Marilyn Monroe, found dead in her home in August 1962-bookend this new history of Hollywood's postwar transition. Num Pages: 248 pages, 41 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJP; APF; BTC; HBJK; HBLW3; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284326
- ISBN
- 9780520284326
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.80
€ 33.99
€ 24.80
Paperback. Fully updated since Shipman's suicide, this is the in-depth and authoritative investigation of the UK's most prolific mass murderer. Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 143 x 28. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751529982
- ISBN
- 9780751529982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.51
€ 17.99
€ 13.51
Paperback. Wensley Clarkson explores the dark and sinister side of the multi-billion-pound hash smuggling business: one fuelled by a brutal underworld network of dealers, drug barons, bent cops and even terrorists. Num Pages: 346 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782061991
- ISBN
- 9781782061991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 10.65
€ 17.99
€ 10.65
Paperback. Henri de Monfried is inextricably linked to the Red Sea and the raffish ports between Suez and Aden in the early years of the twentieth century. This book is an account of how de Monfried becomes a collector and merchant of the fabled Gulf pearls, and is drawn into the shadowy world of arms trading, slavery, smuggling and drugs. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QSL; BG; BTC; HBTM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141442105
- ISBN
- 9780141442105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.31
€ 17.99
€ 14.31
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781506345444
- ISBN
- 9781506345444
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 103.56
€ 103.56
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Dundurn Group Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 189
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550023787
- ISBN
- 9781550023787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.32
€ 15.99
€ 15.32
Paperback. Series: True Crime History. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781606351932
- ISBN
- 9781606351932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.30
€ 63.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; BTP; JFFE1; VFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Publisher
- Health Communications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780757317965
- ISBN
- 9780757317965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.82
€ 17.99
€ 15.82
Paperback. From the bestselling author of Fred & Rose, Heistis the astonishing story of the GBP53 million Tonbridge Securitas robbery. Num Pages: 512 pages, 2 x 16pp colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKESK; 3JMC; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1851
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847390554
- ISBN
- 9781847390554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.45
€ 14.99
€ 11.45
Paperback. What drives a woman to kill? Obsession? Revenge? Desperation? Or Pure Evil? Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Blake Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844548477
- ISBN
- 9781844548477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.76
€ 15.99
€ 14.76
Paperback. As Scott and his two companions lay dying in their tent, elsewhere on the polar ice-cap six members of his ill-fated expedition, the Northern Party, were fighting for their lives. Led by Dr Levick, this title is based on his previously unpublished diaries, monographs, photographs and sketches. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1MTS; 3JJC; BTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 303.
- Publisher
- Pimlico London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712679954
- ISBN
- 9780712679954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.51
€ 21.99
€ 16.51
Paperback. The autobiography - the dangerous life and wild times - of Sonny Barger, the legendary leader of the Hell's Angels. Num Pages: 272 pages, (51 b/w integ). BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841153360
- ISBN
- 9781841153360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.45
€ 14.99
€ 11.45
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBW; BTC; HBJK; HBLW; JKVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 30.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762793037
- ISBN
- 9780762793037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 23.47
€ 30.99
€ 23.47
Paperback. A story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweaved over the course of some nine months in the late 1960s: one was a thief and con man called James Earl Ray, the other one of the greatest American figures of the twentieth century, Martin Luther King Jr Hampton Sides follows in Ray's footsteps as he escapes from prison. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; BTC; HBJK; JPWL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780718192068
- ISBN
- 9780718192068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.45
€ 16.99
€ 12.45
Paperback. Christopher Parnell, wrongly accused of drug trafficking, found himself catapulted into the maelstrom of madness and degradation that exists within Indonesian jails. This is a story of one man's battle to survive in some of the world's cruellest and most inhumane prisons. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 x 8pp b/w. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; BTC; JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 372 x 17. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845967291
- ISBN
- 9781845967291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.80
€ 14.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. The most ridiculous emergency calls Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BT; WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 84.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472102553
- ISBN
- 9781472102553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Paperback. Features twenty-five murderous tales, some which were little known outside the county of Herefordshire, and others which made national headlines. Series: Murders. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMF; BTC; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 172 x 12. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752453606
- ISBN
- 9780752453606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.99
€ 19.99
€ 15.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613747759
- ISBN
- 9781613747759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.20
€ 18.99
€ 18.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations (some col.), col. map, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTP; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Anchor Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385497671
- ISBN
- 9780385497671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.67
€ 20.99
€ 15.67
Paperback. Based on fact, Historie de Louis Anniaba was first published in 1740 but has never before been reprinted. The story allows a degree of narrative and geographical fantasy, but the legal context of the period, in this volume brought into play for the first time, throws into relief the author's free-thinking stance. Editor(s): Little, Roger. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDU; BGH; BT; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 126 x 8. Weight in Grams: 175.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 92
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896702
- ISBN
- 9780859896702
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.19
€ 42.19