You are here: Home > Nonfiction > Law
Sort By:
Page of 9
Cannibal Killers Cover
Cannibal Killers: The History of Impossible Murders (Paperback)
List Price: $11.95
Our Price: $7.17 for 25 - 99 copies
You save $4.78!

Anthropophagy: It's the crime that shocks us beyond all others. For the anthropophagite - neither acknowledging one of the last taboos of modern civilized society nor resisting an inordinate, savage, and perhaps uncontrollable bestial appetite - eats human flesh and drinks human blood. The anthropophagite murders to consume. Our fascination with cannibals, which has in recent time burgeoned with the publication of Thomas Harris's novels Hannibal and The Silence of the Lambs, lies as much in history as it does in fiction, for instances of cannibalism have for centuries cracked through the facade of civilization in human society. After tracing in quick, narrative strokes the history of cannibalism back to ancient China and recounting notorious crimes like those of Sawney Bean, who consumed more than one thousand victims over a period of twenty-five years in sixteenth-century Scotland, Moira Martingale chronicles the exploits of those few, uncommon criminals who have killed for flesh in the twentieth century. Among the subjects in Martingale's gallery are Jeffrey Dahmer, the murderer of seventeen young men; Edward Gein, who resorted to cannibalism after the death of his mother and provided Alfred Hitchcock with the role model for Norman Bates in Psycho, and, most infamous of all, reputedly the worst cannibal killer in modern history, the dreaded Russian Andrei Chokatilo.
The Mammoth Book of the History of Murder Cover
The Mammoth Book of the History of Murder: (Paperback)
List Price: $11.95
Our Price: $7.17 for 25 - 99 copies
You save $4.78!

Murder provided public entertainment for the Caesars of ancient Rome, and executions drew huge, enthusiastic crowds in Elizabethan England and at the Bastille in revolutionary France. The thirst for blood and cry for deadly vengeance lie deep in humankind, as criminologist Colin Wilson authoritatively illustrates in this millennial history of the most heinous of human crimes. Analyzing the tangle of motives behind murder and examining an astonishing variety of homicidal methods over the past twenty centuries, Wilson not only profiles infamous historical figures like Vlad the Impaler, Ivan the Terrible, Gilles de Rais, Countess Elizabeth Bathory, Marquis de Sade, and Jack the Ripper, but also studies particular categories of homicide and such phenomena as the Jacobean witch hunts and gangland killings of America's Jazz Age. Wilson's chronicle includes, too, the serial killings, random shooting sprees, and cult murders that have troubled more recent times. The comprehensive history and illuminating analysis of how humans kill, and why, make crime-expert Wilson's volume one that no true-crime fan or student of criminology will want to miss.
Catspaw Cover
Catspaw: The Famed Trial Attorney's Heroic Defense of a Man Unjustly Accused (Paperback)
List Price: $11.95
Our Price: $7.17 for 25 - 99 copies
You save $4.78!

A riveting account of the legendary trial attorney Nizer's most dramatic and challenging case--the 18-year ordeal of a man falsely accused of murder. "The story it tells will shock (and) Mr. Nizer's role in the case is a heroic one".--F. Lee Bailey.
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Cover
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper: (Paperback)
List Price: $12.95
Our Price: $7.77 for 25 - 99 copies
You save $5.18!

Enlisting in the hundred-year-old debate about the identity of the world's first serial killer, this Mammoth investigation introduces the facts of the famous case and presents some of the most convincing, if conflicting, theories of the murderer's identity.
Legal Blunders Cover
Legal Blunders: (Paperback)
List Price: $12.95
Our Price: $7.77 for 25 - 99 copies
You save $5.18!

In the siege at Ruby Ridge the FBI erred fatally. Crazily, Colin Ferguson killed at random on the Long Island Railroad and in court acted in his own defense. For decades the jury has been out on Sacco and Vanzetti. Cases like these and numerous other instances of incomprehensible judgments, hostile juries, bungled executions, security leaks, and incompetence among felons and police officers alike all figure significantly in this eye-opening compilation of criminal blunders and judicial screw-ups. The legal horror stories that appear in these often shocking, occasionally unbelievable, and sometimes amusing pages run a gamut of error from the tragic misjudgments at Waco to an absent-minded judge who neglected to sentence a convicted defendant to death, from a disastrous case of mistaken identity that led to the shooting of an innocent man by the London police to police dogs that have protected the felons they were supposed to attack. This dismaying collection offers cases, too, of criminals who have made some fairly major mistakes like failing to put gas in the tank of the getaway car or heisting a van supposedly stashed with gambling chips (they made off with a high-calorie cache of potato chips). And of course Son of Sam was nabbed by a parking violation. The law may or may not be an ass, but its breakers and upholders are often without doubt asinine, as this volume abundantly shows.
The Mammoth Book of Murder and Science Cover
The Mammoth Book of Murder and Science: (Paperback)
List Price: $12.95
Our Price: $7.77 for 25 - 99 copies
You save $5.18!

A compelling true-crime collection of infamous murder cases cracked by forensic know-how. In the tradition of the popular top-sellers The Mammoth Book of True Crime and The Mammoth Book of Unsolved Crime, this volume offers an absorbing anthology of thirty actual murder cases in which forensic evidence ensured criminal justice - from the blood evidence in the murder trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard, the case that inspired the TV series The Fugitive, to the bite marks on the daughter of Lindy Chamberlain, the Australian woman who claimed her child had been abducted by a dingo, to the handwriting that convicted Texas attorney Albert T. Patrick of a millionaire businessman's murder.
Unsolved Crimes Cover
Unsolved Crimes: The Top Ten Unsolved Murders of the 20th Century (Paperback)
List Price: $12.95
Our Price: $7.77 for 25 - 99 copies
You save $5.18!

The twentieth century has come to a close without closing the books on some of its darkest crimes, such as the Lord Lucan murder, the disppearance of Jimmy Hoffa, the assassination of President Kennedy, and the coma of Sunny von Bulow. Time and again, Kirk Wilson comes closer than any other investigator to exposing the gritty, shocking truth. And in a specially extended edition of this award-winning book, renowned true-crime expert Colin Wilson adds a new introductory chapter with his own slant on how and why these crimes continue to haunt us. "An accomplished amateur sleuth's handbook ... a solid fix for crime addicts ... thought through with Holmesian passion."—Kirkus Review
Letters to a Young Lawyer Cover
Letters to a Young Lawyer: (Paperback)
List Price: $12.95
Our Price: $7.77 for 25 - 99 copies
You save $5.18!

As defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspoken attorney in the land. Whether or not they agree with his legal tactics, most people would agree that he possesses a powerful and profound sense of justice. In this meditation on his profession, Dershowitz writes about life, law, and the opportunities that young lawyers have to do good and do well at the same time.We live in an age of growing dissatisfaction with law as a career, which ironically comes at a time of unprecedented wealth for many lawyers. Dershowitz addresses this paradox, as well as the uncomfortable reality of working hard for clients who are often without many redeeming qualities. He writes about the lure of money, fame, and power, as well as about the seduction of success. In the process, he conveys some of the "tricks of the trade" that have helped him win cases and become successful at the art and practice of "lawyering."
The Mammoth Book of Famous Trials Cover
The Mammoth Book of Famous Trials: The 30 Greatest Trials of All time, Including Charles Manson, Oscar Wilde, O.J. Simpson and Al Capone (Paperback)
List Price: $13.95
Our Price: $8.37 for 25 - 99 copies
You save $5.58!

The Mammoth Book of Famous Trials is a collection of 35 of the most famous trials of the 20th century. Recorded by the people who were there, some of the contributors include Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Brian Masters, and Damon Runyon. Among the cases included in this book are the following: The longest on record in the United States — of the deadly duo Bianchi and Buono for the dozen Hillside Stranglings; Brady and Hindley — the iconic case of multiple-child murder; the media frenzy surrounding Bruno Hauptmann's alleged murder of the infant son of Charles Lindberg; O.J. Simpson's trial of the 1990s; the 1968 trial of eleven-year-old Mary Bell who was convicted for killing two little boys; the trial of Oscar Wilde; and the nine-month trial of Charles Manson.
The Mammoth Book of Gangs and Gangsters Cover
The Mammoth Book of Gangs and Gangsters: (Paperback)
List Price: $13.95
Our Price: $8.37 for 25 - 99 copies
You save $5.58!

Enter the world of gangland crime. Some men command a respect that few others, even in this violent underworld, can equal. They live by a strict code and to them violence is simply an accepted part of their profession. Here is the fullest ever collection of 'hard men' accounts: over 30 true stories of men living on the very edge of what is 'normal' to the rest of us — the merciless streets of the Mafia, Triads, Yardies, Yakuza, Hell's Angels, and Chinese Tongs. They are the faces behind a dozen urban myths, and bywords for toughness. People you just don't want to mess with. Including both recent gangsters and notorious earlier Mafia-age predecessors — from Dillinger, Capone, Ned Kelly and the Krays, to Mad Frank, Lenny 'the Guv'nor' Mclean and Sonny Barger — this is the ultimate collection for anyone interested in violent true crime, how 'real' criminals think, and the darker elements of society.
   
 
Back to Top