Crime 7


68895 A YEAR IN FASHION: A Look a Day by Pascal Morché


This outstanding, thick volume accompanies the reader through the world of fashion over the last 100 years from Jeanne Paquin through Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli and Christian Dior to pace-setting contemporary designers. The elegance of the 30s is juxtaposed with the polished poses of the 50s. The Swinging Sixties contrast with the glamorous style of the 80s. A sartorially challenged holed T-shirt is put into context by a grand 20s ball gown. The photos are accompanied by short texts - a range of witticisms, aphorisms, explanations and impressions from and about couturiers, designers, models and stars. Each page has


something to offer - a surprise, a provocation, a shock or simply pleasure. 365 double page spreads of vibrant photos in colour and b/ w.


£24.99 NOW £10


68901 BOOK OF DIAMONDS: Their History and Romance from Ancient India to Modern Times by Joan Dickinson


Explains and illustrates different diamond cuts, the role of carats and how to buy diamonds - for sentiment, beauty, show, flawlessness or investment. Step-by-step photos show how these valuable stones are mined and the intricacies of cutting and faceting, while reproductions of museum paintings and photos depict famous individual diamonds, as well as outstanding rings, bracelets, brooches, pins, earrings, watches, tiaras and other traditional and modern diamond pieces. Here, too, you will find tales of the most famous and infamous diamonds: the Koh-i-Noor in the Tower of London, the Hope in the Smithsonian Institution, the Regent in the Louvre, the Orloff in the Kremlin, and many more. 241 paperback pages. 200 b/w plates. £17.99 NOW £5


68972 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF FURNITURE


by Frederick Litchfield A monumental, now classic tome we are thrilled to see back. The author lived from 1850 until 1930, numbered among his patrons and clients such influential figures as Queen Victoria, the Emperor of Russia and the Empress Frederick of


Germany and, as a leading authority, was well qualified to advise on furniture. This impressive volume was produced in seven editions over a span of 30 years. Here are the Middle Ages, encompassing 1,000 years from the fall of Rome to the 14th century, when the chair, the buffet and the dressoir were developed. Next is the Renaissance with its high-backed leather chairs and the Great Bed of Ware. Then comes the Jacobean age of settles, couches, presses, oak work chimney-pieces and panelling. The chapter on furniture of Eastern Countries shows the dexterity of the Chinese in manipulating wood, ivory and stone. Tapestry work and the rococo style feature large in the section on French design, and the Georgian period that follows highlights famous names - Chippendale, Heppelwhite, Sheraton and the introduction of mahogany. The 19th century is split in two, with the second part focusing on the Great Exhibition, the V&A Museum and art nouveau. 459 very large pages, lavishly illus in b/w with lists of artists and manufacturers of furniture. £25 NOW £15


68322 CARNIVAL MASKS OF VENICE: A Photographic


Essay by J.C. Brown Every year, in Venice more than anywhere else in Europe, the abstinent weeks of Lent are forgotten in the exuberant release of celebration that is carnival.


Carnival masks have been worn to protect the wearers’ identities for the best part of 1,000 years, and with good reason. From the 13th century onwards the behaviour of Venetian carnival revellers became increasingly dissolute to the extent that to prevent debauchees from hiding their identities, more and more anti-mask laws were introduced, until finally in 1797 Napoleon’s occupying government banned the wearing of masks at all times. It was not until the 1970s that the tradition was revived and has since become the prevailing image of Venetian carnevale. This visually stunning book begins with a detailed and most interesting history of carnival and mask-wearing. A feast of colour and history. 96pp, 10½”×8½”.


£16.99 NOW £6 68252 AMERICAN LUXURY JEWELS FROM


THE HOUSE OF TIFFANY edited by Jeannine Falino and Yvonne Markowitz


Through a series of original essays, including - uniquely - one on jewellery worn by men, this extensive volume pays tribute to Tiffany’s enduring ingenuity in the design of fine luxury goods. Charles Lewis Tiffany, one of the founders of the firm, was aware of the desire of newly emerging elites for high-style jewels that would rival those owned by European aristocrats. An astute entrepreneur, he would eventually purchase part of the French Crown jewels, selling them alongside outstanding diamonds, precious gem-set jewellery and Swiss-made watches. The company also passionately developed an American style, promoting American materials and motifs. Their displays at international expositions met with great success. They were also quick to adopt technological advances, including the raised diamond mount - the Tiffany Setting - new diamond cutting techniques and a system of hallmarking. The exquisite jewels shown here include such awe-inspiring items as: earrings designed by Paloma Picasso in platinum, gold, yellow sapphire, pink tourmaline, tsavorite and amethyst, orchid brooches of gold, diamond and emerald, necklaces too intricate to describe. 207 very large pages packed with colour and b/w archive photos,


with chronology. Full price. ONLY £26


68023 TOYS, TRIFLES AND TRINKETS: Base-Metal Miniatures from London 1200 to 1800


by Hazel Forsyth and Geoff Egan The Museum of London’s collection of pewter toys and miniatures, comprising some 1,800 items, is probably the largest and most important of its kind in the world. This is the first comprehensive inter-disciplinary study undertaken, and includes general information on manufacturing technique and production, makers and workshops, trade and distribution, function and form, as well as new research on the patrons and consumers of such miniatures. The full range of different types of miniatures is presented, and ranges from arms and armour and domestic utensils to figurines, furniture, modes of transport and watches. This magnificent, informative and beautifully illustrated volume features important reference information including scientific data tables, catalogue concordances, typological charts and bibliography. 480 pages with 711 illus in b/w and 14 in colour.


£45 NOW £16.50 CRIME


Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.


- Oscar Wilde 69476 CONNED: Scams,


Frauds and Swindles by James Morton and Hilary Bateson


From schemes to turn water into petrol and paper into banknotes, boiler room scams, switched racehorses, crooked card games, fake royalty and doctors, forgers and fakers, the authors run through the full gamut of tricks used to separate a fool from his money. As


a bonus they give advice on how to avoid falling foul to the numerous conmen and women operating today. With the popularity of Hustle and The Real Hustle on TV, here are dozens of stories to entertain us and shock us. Imposters and conmen like Michael Dennis Corrigan and Charles Dasilva, Caroline Morgan a 36 year old who at various times claimed she had brain, liver and bowel cancer and took a number of unsuspecting men for £30,000 or Raymond Fernandez who married and cheated women out of all their money and was responsible for 17 women dying. 248pp in paperback with line art.


£10.99 NOW £4.50


69522 MAJOR FARRAN’S HAT: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War Against Jewish


Terrorism 1945-1948 by David Cesarani


A gripping true story of the murder in Palestine of a Jewish activist by a British counter-terrorist officer and the subsequent cover-up. It was May 1947 when Alexander Rubowitz, a Jewish teenager, was mysteriously abducted in Jerusalem


and never seen again. He was active in a Zionist underground group fighting British rule in Palestine. Witnesses said he was seized by a British policeman. A grey felt hat found at the scene was traced to Major Roy Farran, a highly decorated ex-SAS officer. As evidence of murder grew, Farran fled to Syria but was persuaded to return and acquitted after a sensational court martial. He came home to a hero’s welcome, but the Zionist underground swore vengeance. It had already penetrated British homeland security and now sent its top man after Farran. The book draws on recently declassified files of the Security Services to reveal the full extent and ambition of Jewish terrorist attacks on Britain in the late 1940s and the story has remarkable echoes of today’s war on terror. 290pp in large paperback with photos. £12.99 NOW £4.50


69483 EXPLOSIVES: History


With A Bang by G. I. Brown Many of the main characters in this book such as Roger Bacon, Guy Fawkes, Alfred Nobel and Robert Oppenheimer are famed worldwide. Others such as C. S. Schönbeim, William Bickford, Sir Frederick Abel and Charles E. Munroe are less well known. Our book tells the dramatic tale of explosives from gunpowder to the H-bomb. Laying the emphasis on the lives of the people


involved, on the diverse uses of explosives and on their social and historical impact, here is a remarkable tale of international human endeavour. The book also highlights the uses and impact of explosives in both war and terrorism, as well as in civil engineering, quarrying, mining, demolition, fireworks manufacture and shooting for sport. Here too is the early use of gunpowder in the American Civil War, the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the worldwide opening up of canals and railways. So if nitroglycerine, dynamite, gun cotton or nuclear fusion do it for you, snap up this bargain. 278pp in paperback with many photos and illus. £9.99 NOW £5


69261 BRISTOL MURDERS by Michael Posner


In this gruesome collection of true stories Michael Posner brings together murderous tales that shocked the city of Bristol and also made national headlines. Here are the full details of some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in the country, many of which have never before been so closely examined. Eight particularly awful


cases come in for close scrutiny, starting with Mary Ann Bibliophile Books Unit 5 Datapoint, 6 South Crescent, London E16 4TL TEL: 020 74 74 24 74


Burdock who in 1833 poisoned Clara Smith, followed by 18-year-old John Horwood who in 1821 killed Eliza Balsam, the young girl with whom he was obsessed, and whose skin was removed post-hanging by the eminent Bristol surgeon Richard Smith, tanned and preserved at the infirmary as a gruesome reminder of the consequences of taking life. In 1726 Captain John Jeane was executed for the appalling treatment he meted out to an innocent cabin boy, who took 18 days to die from repeated whippings and other horrifying physical torments, and there are further accounts of killings for which the perpetrator was never apprehended, and those where the killer was caught but cheated the gallows by suicide or the intervention of nature. Finally there is a section which gives the details of the 23 cases of murder in Bristol between 1946 and 2006 which remain open - chances are they will stay that way as time passes, but as Posner reminds us, sometimes it just needs one apparently inconsequential memory or piece of evidence to open a case wide open, and a killer can never, ever stop looking over their shoulder. B/w photos, woodcuts and other illus, 96pp in softback.


£12.99 NOW £6


67875 YOUNG OFFENDERS: Juvenile Delinquency 1700-


2000 by Pamela Horn Using court and prison records, parliamentary papers, the press, the writings of reformers and other records, such as those covering transportation to and life in overseas penal colonies, she considers the ways in which punishment of the young and the definition of delinquency itself have developed.


It also examines at length the gender differences in juvenile crime, with boys’ misdeeds tending toward theft and violence and those of girls more frequently relating to sexual and moral matters, and at how attempts at reforming offenders by the creation of purpose-built institutions have generally met with failure. 280pp, b/w illus.


£25 NOW £7


68398 OSCAR SLATER: The ‘Immortal’ Case of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Thomas Toughill


The Oscar Slater case is the most scandalous miscarriage of justice in modern British history. As Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald admitted, the German Jew convicted in 1909 of murdering a wealthy Glasgow spinster was not just innocent, he was framed by officers of the British Crown in order to protect the real culprits. Fresh from his success in exonerating George Edalji, another wrongfully convicted man, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, devoted his sleuthing skills to freeing Slater. But, such was the official opposition encountered by Sir Arthur, that he achieved this only after securing the personal intervention of the Prime Minister. 260 paperback pages, photos.


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68329 A HANDBOOK ON HANGING: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution


by Charles Duff A satiric tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilisation - the hangman. Duff not only writes on hanging but also of electrocution, decapitation and gassing, of innocent men executed and of executions botched, of


bloodlust mobs and the political expedience of the great. Very detailed notes on the scaffold, the late Mr Berry, a well known hangman, an account of England’s last public hanging, anti-hanging campaigns, imported hangmen, the popularity of murder trials and much more. 208pp in paperback.


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68484 CICERO SPY AFFAIR by Richard Wires


Made into a classic film Five Fingers, the story of the spy codenamed Cicero is typically hard to unravel. By autumn 1943 Turkey was maintaining neutrality with the greatest difficulty. The ambassadors in Ankara representing the rival powers were Nazi Germany’s Franz von Papen, formerly the German Chancellor, and Britain’s Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. The spy Elyesa Bazna was a professional singer who taught himself basic espionage procedures and decided to aim at the top target. He became a handyman at the British embassy and when he applied for a job as valet to the ambassador everyone assumed he had already been vetted. He then approached the Germans with an offer to spy. Meanwhile Knatchbull-Hugessen was becoming worried at the extent of Papen’s information about British plans, but the British themselves rejected intelligence which would have uncovered the network. 256pp, paperback, photos. £14.99 NOW £5


68906 EXECUTIONER: The Chronicles of a Victorian Hangman


by Stewart P. Evans


When the public executioner William Marwood died in 1883, his friend John Berry was among 1,400 who applied for the post. The man they appointed proved drunken and clumsy, and the second time round Berry succeeded. Marwood had his own scientific system and Berry sought to equal him in efficiency,


inventing a table of weights and drops. A noose would last for about 12 executions and sections of it were often sold off to collectors with a taste for the macabre. Berry’s first victims were two popular poachers who were hoping for a reprieve, and his second was a woman, Mary Lefley, convicted of poisoning her husband with arsenic in his pudding, though many years later a business rival confessed to the murder. Berry went on to execute a number of notorious convicts, including several people whose names had been associated with the Ripper murders. 452pp, paperback, photos.


£12.99 NOW £5 e-mail: orders@bibliophilebooks.com 68485 MUSSOLINI - THE


SECRETS OF HIS DEATH by Luciano Garibaldi No one disputes that Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were shot on 29 April, 1945, and their bodies were displayed for public inspection, but the events leading up to this brutal scenario have been much disputed. Some versions claim that the executioners were acting on behalf of the British Special Operations Executive on the orders


of Winston Churchill, and investigation is made difficult by the fact that even 60 years after the collaborationist period 1943-45, the subject is perceived by Italian academics as being taboo. The resistance fighter, Captain Neri, who captured Mussolini appealed to the British for protection but was mysteriously murdered on 7 May. Garibaldi also examines related mysteries, for example how the 65 kilos of gold bullion transported in Mussolini’s convoy ended up in the coffers of the Italian Communist Party. 237pp, photos. £11.99 NOW £4


68883 QUEST FOR RADOVAN KARADZIC by Nick Hawton


For over a decade Radovan Karadzic, former Bosnian Serb President and Europe’s most wanted man, evaded the combined efforts of Western intelligence agencies. He travelled around with apparent impunity, even making TV appearances in his guise as a guru of alternative medicine. That he was finally apprehended on 18 July 2008 was due in no small part to the efforts of journalist Nick Hawton. On his journey into the dark heart of Balkan politics and crime he met secret service agents who tried to recruit him, got to know the Karadzic family at their home in Bosnia, interviewed the Serbian politicians who held the levers of power and met the widows who had lost everything in the Bosnian war that Karadzic had helped to spark. He uncovered an almost unimaginable web of intrigue, murder, betrayal, espionage, dirty deals and international politics, with a heartbreaking cast of innocent victims. B/w photos, 226pp in paperback. £14.99 NOW £4.50


69061 A SPY’S JOURNEY: A CIA Memoir by Floyd Paseman


Floyd Paseman’s career in the CIA began with a chance conversation with a fellow student at the University of Oregon who had been accepted by the organisation and suggested he might ask for details too. Starting employment at the height of the Cold War, Paseman was posted all across Europe and Asia in order to counter Soviet and Chinese Communist threats. He mastered all existing espionage methods, inventing more than a few of his own in the process, learned difficult foreign languages and dialects and studied local customs, traditions and habits in detail in order to gain that little bit extra trust of knowledge that could make all the difference. If you have ever wanted to know what a breakfast of moose lips and vodka in Mongolia is like, then Floyd is your man! One of the finest CIA memoirs yet published. 315pp paperback with photos. £12.99 NOW £4


66760 WOULD-BE COMMONER A Tale of Deception, Murder and Justice in 17th Century France by Jeffrey Ravel


How could a man prove his identity in 17th century Paris? Louis de la Pivardière was the seignieur of Narbonne, an unenviable position given the increasing burden of taxation imposed by Louis XIV. Called up in 1689 to serve in the disastrous Nine Years’ War, Louis occasionally returned to his wife Marguerite for funds but otherwise they lived separate lives, with Marguerite taking a clerical lover, the Prior Charost, who was unconcerned about breaking his vows of celibacy. In 1695 Louis contracted a bigamous marriage with the teenage daughter of his landlady, Marie, who was pregnant, and lived with her under an assumed name. Marguerite became aware of the marriage and cut off his income, but in 1697 Louis returned for money, quarrelling with Marguerite and disappearing on the night of 15 August. His absence caused comment and when Marguerite and the Prior were arrested for murder, Louis was tracked down and required to appear before the courts to prove that he was still alive. 288pp, illus. $25 NOW £3.50


67850 ESCAPES FROM THE NOOSE by Stephen Wade


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In the medieval period and in later Saxon times, there were many alternatives to a death sentence, but in the 18th century and the Regency, there was a gradual increase in capital offences and so the ritual of public execution (until 1868) was a massively attractive prospect for the media. Then in 1782 came the establishment of the Home Office and the Home Secretary could play a part in reprieving those awaiting death in the condemned cell. Here are stories of attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria, Dr Whitmarsh the abortionist, early forensics dramas, the murderous widow of Windy Nook, the story of Mrs Maybrick who may have been married to Jack the Ripper and many more. 128pp in large softback with many illus. £14.99 NOW £6


67835 JONATHAN WILD -


CONMAN AND CUTPURSE by John van der Kiste Born probably in 1683, Jonathan Wild was Britain’s most well known criminal of the 18th century and known as the director of a ‘corporation of thieves’. He directed a large band of thieves and felons who dealt in stolen goods, kept the stolen goods himself and waited until the crime and theft was


announced in the papers, at which point he would claim that his agents had found them and would return them to their rightful owners, demanding a fee. He informed on about 120 men during his career and all went to the gallows. He himself was arrested on a minor felony charge, found guilty and hanged at Tyburn in May 1725. His gang included Jack Sheppard, housebreaker, Nathaniel Hawes, highwayman, William Burridge, horse stealer and others, all executed in the 1720s. Woodcut illus, 96pp in paperback. £12.99 NOW £3.50


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