Light, Vision and Seeing: A Simplified Presentation of Their Relationships and Their Importance in Human Efficiency and Welfare.

Luckiesh, Matthew

ISBN 10: 0805007539 / ISBN 13: 9780805007534

Published by D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., New York, 1946

About this Item

Fourth printing. Burgundy cloth hardcovers. Luckiesh-Moss Visibility Indicator chart pasted to inside rear cover. Light handling wear to head and tail of spine. Owner's signature to endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. One Hundred Questions section; references, index. A sound and handsome copy, very neat. xiv,323pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Light, Vision and Seeing: A Simplified Presentation of Their Relationships and Their Importance in Human Efficiency and Welfare.
• Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 1946
• ISBN 10: 0805007539
• ISBN 13: 9780805007534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Even though the Newtown, Connecticut, police listed Helle Crafts' disappearance as a routine missing person case, Keith Mayo, a private investigator, knew the Danish-born mother of three hadn't skipped town nine days before Thanksgiving.. Rita Buonanno remembers the words exactly: "If anything happens to me don't think it was an accident." Helle Crafts was last seen on November 18, 1986.In the style of a brilliant detective novel, Arthur Herzog skillfully re-creates the hour-by-hour circumstantial details that inform this grisly true-crime narrative. We observe dispassionate Richard Crafts as he buys a truck with a pintle hook for towing heavy equipment, promised for delivery before November 18. A day later he reserves a Badger Brush Bandit woodchipper.

Reviews

Herzog ( Vesco ) is convinced that Connecticut-based airline pilot Richard Crafts bludgeoned his stewardess wife to death in November 1986; cut up her body with a chain saw; and fed its remains into an industrial-strength woodchipper. In this gripping re-creation of the alleged crime (the case ended in a mistrial; a second trial is pending), Herzog may have leapt into the fray prematurely, but he lays out a cogent scenario for a domestic atrocity. The case began not long after Helle Crafts returned home from a European flight, then vanished. Prior to her disappearance, Helle had commissioned private detective Keith Mayo to conduct an investigation of her husband's suspected infidelity. Newtown, Conn., police at first seemed uninterested in pursuing the disappearance, but pressure from Mayo forced action that led to the arrest of Crafts for murder, a charge based on body fragments purported to be Helle's. According to Herzog, there is less than a reasonable doubt about the husband's guilt--and the author stigmatizes the hung jury's lone dissenter as a misguided eccentric.
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Shortly before divorce papers were to be served on her airline pilot husband, Helle Crafts, a flight attendant and mother of three, disappeared from her Connecticut home. Spurred on by her friends, investigators launched an inquiry after learning that Richard Crafts gave conflicting accounts about Helle's absence. He was tried for murder, but one jury member held out for "not guilty" and a retrial is slated this year. Despite the status of the case, Herzog unqualifiedly asserts Crafts's guilt: evidence strongly suggests that he shredded his wife's body in a woodchipping machine. Although Herzog wrote this book without waiting for the trial transcript, he has produced an informed, gripping true-crime drama. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 4/1/89.
- Gregor A. Preston, Univ. of California Lib., Davis
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.