An International Casebook of Crime


By: Hyde, H. Montgomery, with John H. Kisch

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[moderate wear, mild edge-soiling; jacket worn/torn at top of spine, a little wear and some slight insect-chewing evident along top edge of rear panel, rear panel a bit soiled]. Accounts, "from a number of countries [of] ten of the most remarkable criminal cases that have occurred since the last war." Chapters deal with Caryl Chessman (U.S.); Gordon Lonsdale and the Navy spies (England); Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel (U.S.); murderer Brian Donald Hume (tried for murder in both England and Switzerland); Dr. Richard Muller (Germany); the Moscow trial of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers (Soviet Union); the Dominicis and the Drummond family (France); pimp Alfredo Messina (England); pimp Micke Jelke (U.S.); Mazurkiewicz, "playboy of Cracow" (Poland).

Title: An International Casebook of Crime

Author: Hyde, H. Montgomery, with John H. Kisch

Edition: First Edition

ISBN Number: NO

Location Published: London, Barrie and Rockliff: 1962

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

Categories: Crime and the Law

Seller ID: 5363

Keywords: criminals murder trials caryl chessman gordon lonsdale spies francis gary powers