From a cat burglar in Honolulu to an Australian wife-murderer (nine wives in all), each of 18 law-enforcement officers recounts the strangest case of his career. Included are Frederick Cherrill (ex-chief superintendent of Scotland Yard) J. Edgar Hoover (director, F.B.I.), Mike Gier (ex-police chief of three western Canadian cities). Also contains accounts of crimes from Czechoslovakia, Japan, the U.S.S.R., Germany, Ecuador, and so on. Grey cloth, 192 pages. Mild edgewear, mild wear to corners/spine ends, off-setting to end papers, tanning, in rubbed dust jacket w/moderate edgewear, some yellowing, short edge tears, a bit of chipping to bottom edge of front flap/corners/spine ends. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

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Title: MY STRANGEST CASE, by Police Chiefs of the World
Author: Singer, Kurt (ed.)
Publisher: Crime Club/Doubleday, Garden City
Publication year: 1958
Condition: Very Good
Dust jacket: Good to Very Good
Book Type: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Tony Palladihno (dust jacket illustration)
Edition: 1st US edition.
Seller catalogs: True Crime

Augustine Funnell Books

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