Synopsis
The fascinating story of Ted Bundy, a brilliant law student now suspected of thirty-eight murders nationwide, as told by a crime reporter, former policewoman, and long-time personal friend of the convicted murderer
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Review
Not long ago, true crime writer Ann Rule recalls lying on an operating table. The anesthesiologist leaned over before putting her to sleep. "Ann," the anesthesiologist said softly, "tell me, what was Ted Bundy really like?" Despite meeting Florida's electric chair in 1989, the subject of Rule's bestselling book continues to haunt her. Rule and Bundy were friends. They met in 1971 at a Seattle crisis clinic, where they shared the late shift answering a suicide hotline. Their subsequent conversations, meetings, and letters spanned the rest of Bundy's life as he evolved into one of the century's most notorious serial killers. It's been 20 years since Rule first penned this chilling account. But the story--and her 2000 update--will still have readers reaching for their Xanax. No gratuitous gore here; just the basic, bone-chilling evidence. In fact, like a protective mother shielding us from horrors too awful to mention, Rule seems to avoid delving too deeply into crime scene descriptions. She devotes one paragraph in her new afterword to her discovery that Bundy engaged in necrophilia and returned to the scenes of his crimes to "line dead lips and eyes with garish makeup and to put blush on pale cheeks." She tells readers that John Hinckley, who shot Ronald Reagan, and David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam Killer, traded prison correspondences with Bundy. And she hints that Bundy's insatiable killer instincts may have started when he was a 14-year-old paperboy. (Ann Marie Burr, an 8-year-old girl on his route, mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night and has never been found.) The skimpy update is over too soon, leaving readers wanting more and offering further proof of the public's never-ending fascination with serial killers. --Jodi Mailander Farrell
About the Author
Ann Rule (1931—2015), a former policewoman, was the author of fifteen New York Times bestsellers, including Small Sacrifices and Lust Killer.
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Cloth. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition Later Printing. The groundbreaking debut book that would launch Ann Rule's career as the queen of the true crime genre. It details her relationship with Ted Bundy while both worked at a Seattle crisis hotline, where, unknown to her, he was actually the violent serial murderer of young Washington women whom she was investigating as a reporter. Bundy was still alive on Florida's death row when she wrote this, & she refers to him as "like the younger brother I had lost.'' A FIRST EDITION, Second Printing, from 1989, this small quarto (6.5" x 9.5") has gray paper over quarter black cloth-covered boards, lettered in gilt. In 350 pages, no photos (these were not added until later editions). Condition is VG+: completely clean, just lacks that brand new crispness, with dust dulling to outside page edges. Binding is strong, with a slight rightward lean. Pages lightly tanned but completely unmarked save for former owner's bookplate to ffep. The unclipped DJ (no price, but no BOMC blurb either, & no emboss to rear board) is VG, with light chipping & creasing to extremities. Protected in clear mylar by former owner, who also taped it to book inside front & back covers. Our photos show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day. Seller Inventory # 023683
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First edition, first printing (with publisher's requisite statement for former and number line starting with "1" both upon copyright page). 350 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket well rubbed; nicks, scuffs, and some bumping/curling at edges; usual color sunning to spine's title lettering; light toning to white flaps; front flap's bottom corner is clipped but publisher's printed price still present at top right; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Black cloth spine with vibrant gilt stamping; black boards. Text block edges foxed; small stain to fore-edge with several leaves shallowly affected at margins. Light foxing/toning to endpapers; past owner's handwritten ink date on front free endpaper; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy in a very good- dust jacket. Well-regarded biography of serial murderer Ted Bundy. ISBN 0393013995. Seller Inventory # CMS-02367
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