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Editore: Penguin Books Canada, Markham, 1987
ISBN 10: 0140088091ISBN 13: 9780140088090
Da: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Libro
Paperback. 8vo. Very good+.
Editore: Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 1980
ISBN 10: 0140021795ISBN 13: 9780140021790
Da: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+ to Near Fine in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: very light wear to the extremities; the mildest rubbing to the wrapper covers; the expected light tanning to the text pages, due to aging; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing light wear only. If no longer 'fresh', remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7 x 4.35 x 0.7 inches). 316 pages. Language: English. Weight: 6.5 ounces. First Edition Thus (1964) , Fourteenth Printing (1980). The hardcover edition was first published in 1959. Mass Market Paperback. Mordecai Richler (1931 2001) was a Canadian writer, best known for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His 1970 novel St. Urbain's Horseman and 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He wrote repeatedly about the Anglophone community of Montreal and especially about his former neighbourhood, portraying it in multiple novels, including Richler published his fourth novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, in 1959. The book featured a frequent Richler theme: Jewish life in the 1930s and 40s in the neighbourhood of Montreal east of Mount Royal Park on and about St. Urbain Street and Saint Laurent Boulevard (known colloquially as "The Main"). Richler wrote of the neighbourhood and its people, chronicling the hardships and disabilities they faced as a Jewish minority: "To a middle-class stranger, it is true, one street would have seemed as squalid as the next. On each corner a cigar store, a grocery, and a fruit man. Outside staircases everywhere. Winding ones, wooden ones, rusty and risky ones. Here a prized lot of grass splendidly barbered, there a spitefully weedy patch. An endless repetition of precious peeling balconies and waste lots making the occasional gap here and there." First Edition Thus (1964) , Fourteenth Printing (1980). The hardcover edition was first published in 1959.
Editore: Puffin Books/Published by the Penguin Group, Markham, ON, Canada, London, New York, et al., 1988
Da: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Libro
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 206 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased spine and front cover. Light foxing on page edges.
Editore: Penguin Books Canada, Markham ON, 1988
ISBN 10: 0140100571ISBN 13: 9780140100570
Da: June Samaras, STREETSVILLE, ON, Canada
Libro
Pbk. Condizione: Very Good. Described as 'Canada's Michael Moore' by the country's National Post, Linda McQuaig is an award-winning investigative reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star. She is the author of seven Canadian bestsellers, which have earned her a reputation as a fierce critic of the establishment. Book.
Editore: Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 1978
Da: Kadriin Blackwell, Greensville, ON, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: Very Good+. Goldsmith, James (illustratore). First Edition. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Light reading crease by spine.
Editore: Penguin Books Canada, Markham, ON, 1987
Da: Dearly Departed Books, Alliance, OH, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: F. 1st Printing. First Canadian printing. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. The d ust jacket has rubbing to its corners and along the head and heel of i ts spine. The front panel has a closed 1" vertical tear at its upper e dge. Rubbing along the rear panel's upper edge. Volume Two in the his tory of the Hudson Bay Company.
Editore: Penguin Books Canada, Markham, 1982
Da: G W Jackson, St.Marys, ON, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Book has little wear. dj has quite a few small tears and chips with some chips missing. Longest tear to jacket is about 1 1/2". Jacket is also a litttle ragged looking at the edges of corners and spine ends and creases to jacket flaps.
Editore: Penguin Books Canada, Markham, 1988
Da: G W Jackson, St.Marys, ON, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. A TRUST BETRAYED Very light shelf wear to book. dj shows chipping and scuffing with a minor corner tear. 193pp.
Editore: Viking / Penguin Books Canada Ltd, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 1987
ISBN 10: 0670807486ISBN 13: 9780670807482
Da: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Large 8vo. (12) 337 (3) pp, illus. First Edition (Canadian), 1987. Price clipped. Faintly rubbed bottom edge boards, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.75" x 9.5". Green and off-white cloth with green lettering to spine. Illustrated dj in acetate protector. Size: Large Octavo. Book.
Editore: Signet / New American Library / Penguin Books Canada, New York / Markham, ON, 1989
ISBN 10: 0451158121ISBN 13: 9780451158123
Da: arbour books, Ladysmith, BC, Canada
Libro
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Printing. Chipping to the front hinge bottom, minor lean to the spine, light corner rubbing. Text is clean. 176 pages. Signet 451-AE5812. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd, Markham, ON, Canada, 1978
ISBN 10: 0140043950ISBN 13: 9780140043952
Da: Bay Used Books, Sudbury, ON, Canada
Libro
Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. Pictures available upon request.
Editore: Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 1981
ISBN 10: 0140058915ISBN 13: 9780140058918
Da: Mister-Seekers Bookstore, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Libro
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. In Very Good Used Condition. With Minor Shelf Wear To Edges and/or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ His wife away for the first time, Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two adolescents while immobilized by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian. This is the husband's story now found in Happenstance: Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition.
Editore: Penguin Books Canada Ltd, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 1983
ISBN 10: 0140068465ISBN 13: 9780140068467
Da: Samuel S Lin, Etobicoke, ON, Canada
Libro Copia autografata
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Fine. 7th Printing. 282 pages. An unread copy. Signed on the title page. Signed by Author.
Editore: Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 1976
Da: Bibliodditiques, IOBA, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good +. Dick Barnard (illustratore). Recipes for fruit, vegetables, herbs. Chapters about preserving, wine-making, making and using yoghurt, baking and freezing produce. TIght binding. No chips, tears or written inscriptions. Some light wear to covers including a quarter-size patch of surface paper loss on front cover. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 266 pp.
Editore: Penguin Books Canada., Markham, Ontario, 1985
ISBN 10: 0140466878ISBN 13: 9780140466874
Da: Ken Jackson, Calgary, AB, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing in card covers with coil binding. 160 pp. Illustrations, index. Small store stamp on rear of front cover otherwise Fine.
Editore: Markham, Ontario. Viking, Penguin Books Canada Ltd
Da: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. F. 1986. 8vo. 22cm, first edition, 222p., fine in near fine jacket (S1) These thirteen short stories, introduced by the author, range in style from stark realism to fantasy.
Editore: Viking / Penguin Books Canada, Markham, Ontario, 1984
ISBN 10: 0670803049ISBN 13: 9780670803040
Da: Nessa Books, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Kent Smith (illustratore). First Edition. ----Quarter bound in blue cloth with gilt on spine, 240 pages, minor edge wear, dust jacket has chipping, edge wear/rubbing, 1" closed tear back bottom edge, The scan you see is the book you get Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Editore: Markham, Ontario, Viking Kestrel/Penguin Books Canada 1986., 1986
Da: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
Prima edizione
First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Very fine in very fine dustjacket. Colour illustrations by the author, for story set around Niagra Falls in the early 1900s. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $3, so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller.
Editore: Penguin Books Canada, Markham, 1985
ISBN 10: 0140080783ISBN 13: 9780140080780
Da: Edmonton Book Store, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Libro
Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: no dustjacket. 8vo pp.201. book.
Editore: Penguin Books Canada Ltd., Markham, 1988
ISBN 10: 0140083979ISBN 13: 9780140083972
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Thus 1st Printing. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. SUB-TITLE: A Week in the Life of an NYPD Homicide Cop. COVER DESIGN: Rene Demers. CONTENTS: Notes on the Material; Dream Sequence; Carnivores; Ghormenghast; Salto Mortal; Bloods; Three Hundred Twenty-two Hours; Tuesday; Juris Diction; Cardillo; Wednesday; Dudley; Thursday; Friday; The Doppler Effect; Glossary. SYNOPSIS: In this gripping expose, Carsten Stroud takes readers into the life of a cop--we're with him during the chase, at the autopsy tale, the visit to the victim's mother. We're in his head, sharing his dreams and his nightmares. As Stroud follows Detective Kennedy through a week of investigations--the stabbing of an out-of-town college student, a brutal rape-murder--he explores the psychic landscape of police work: the low morale, the compulsive commitment to the job, the strange intimacy that binds cop and criminal. Fast, gritty, suspenseful, Close Pursuit delivers all the drama of the best cop fiction--plus the power of a true story told in a unique and explosive style. Carsten Stroud is a journalist whose work regularly appears in Canadian and American magazines. The winner of several awards for his articles, Stroud is the author of The Blue Wall, a book about street cops in Canada. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Editore: A Signet Book New American Library Published by Penguin Books Canada Limited, Markham, 1989
ISBN 10: 0451162188ISBN 13: 9780451162182
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Thus 2nd Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. With Intimate Family Photos. Joe McGinniss, Bestselling author of FATAL VISION. BOOK NUMBER: 451-AE6218. ALL PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF: Roby and Chris Marshall. TV TIE-IN: This book was the basis for the 1990 Made-for-Television mini-series of the same name. SYNOPSIS: The Marshalls were the model family of Toms River, New Jersey, living the American dream of all that money could buy. Rob Marshall was the big breadwinner, king of the country club set. Maria Marshall was his stunningly beautiful wife and the perfect mom to their three great kids. Then one night Rob, his head bloodied, reported Maria had been brutally slain. Sympathy poured in--until disquieting facts began to surface.and the true story of adultery, gambling, drugs and murder tore the mask off Rob Marshall and the blinders off the town that thought he could do no wrong. AWARDS: A Book-of-the Month Club Featured Selection. Joe McGinniss is the author of four previous nonfiction works--The Selling of the President, Heroes, Going to Extremes, (available in a Plume edition), and Fatal Vision (available in a Signet edition)--and one novel, The Dream Team. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Editore: Penguin Books, Markham, On, Canada, 1990
ISBN 10: 0140122168ISBN 13: 9780140122169
Da: Riverwash Books (IOBA), Prescott, ON, Canada
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Libro
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good-. 210 pp. Light edgewear, corners rubbed. An examination of the strange facts and puzzles of daily life. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.
Editore: An Onyx Book New American Library A Division of Penguin Books Canada Ltd., Markham, 1990
ISBN 10: 0451401964ISBN 13: 9780451401960
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Thus 4th Printing. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front Cover, Spine Moderately Chipped; Rear Cover Lightly Chipped; Heavy Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Moderate Moisture Damage; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. WITH 8 PAGES OF REVEALING PHOTOS. SUB-TITLE: The True Story of Nurse Genene Jones and the Texas Baby Murders. BOOK NUMBER: 451-JE196. ALSO KNOWN AS: Portions of this book first appeared, in somewhat different form in Texas Monthly. PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY: Robert Latorre. CONTENTS: Preface; Prologue; Part One The Making of a Nurse; Part Two The Hospital; Part Three The Clinic; Part Four Judicious Silence; Part Five Judgment; Epilogue. SYNOPSIS: One by one the babies were dying in the pediatric ward of a San Antonio, Texas, hospital. Doctors struggled in vain as children survived routine operations only to face life-threatening emergencies and inexplicable deaths. The only common thread: a nurse named Genene Jones, whose daily 3 to 11 p.m. schedule coincided with all the mysterious dying--a time period that became known as "the death shift." This is the horrifying true story of a deeply disturbed woman whose enormous ego needs for constant attention were filled by her tiny victims.and of a hospital administration that, though suspicious, was unable to stop her from killing again and again. This powerful, nerve-shattering account reconstructs the chilling events that led to the deaths of up to thirteen children, as it probes the darkest depths of criminal madness. Peter Elkind is an associate editor of Texas Monthly, which published his award-winning article on the Genene Jones case. For this book, the author interviewed well over one hundred people--including Genene Jones herself--and reviewed thousands of pages of public and secret documents. AWARDS: A Literary Guild Alternate Selection. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Editore: A Signet Book New American Library Published in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited, Markham, 1989
ISBN 10: 0451164539ISBN 13: 9780451164537
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. Hugh Wesley (illustratore). First Thus 1st Printing. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. COVER DESIGN: Vince Desai. CONTENTS: Fun on the Farm; To Newfoundland with Love; The Doctor Prescribed Death; Pieces of a Puzzle; Vito and the Mafia; Tony Planted Bodies; Australia's Dingo Murder; Rachel and Jimmy; Chicken Feed Clue; Great Canadian Crook; A Hot Summer Night; Killer in Manila; Ottawa Tragedy; Murder for Money; Twenty Years Later; The Cardiff Giant; Brotherly Love; Missing from Forest Hill; A Passion for Poison; The Zebra Killers; Slain Priest; Rare Defence; A Family Affair; The Murdering Merry Widow; An Eve of Destruction; Innocent or Guilty?; Martha Reached Her Boiling Point; Just for the Dough; Lady Killer; Unidentified Bones; I Want to Live; Bloody Tina; Artie's Luck Ran Out; The Yorkshire Ripper; Justice was Blind; Lady Sundance; Death at the Schoolhouse; Who Killed the Professor?; Hand of Death; Frenchy's Fall; The Perfect Murder--Almost; The Mountain Man; Death Jilted the Bride; The DiPalma Disappearance; Sisters at Sea; All in the Family; Behind Her Back; Murder in Mexico; The Lonely Killer; The Reverend was a Rascal; Mad Man at the Door; The Five Foot Spear; Scary Stuff; Murder at the Opera; The Candy Killer; Beating a Bully; Prescription Murder; Double Trouble; Hurricane Carter; Secret in the Sauna. SYNOPSIS: Join syndicated columnist Max Haines, Canada's Master of the Macabre, as he traces the devious deeds of felons undone by sloppy schemes and suspicious threads. Relive the Yorkshire Ripper's six-year reign of terror, the shocking Zebra Murders of San Francisco and the puzzling Australian dingo case in Max's ninth book of murder most foul. Max Haines was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. True Crime Stories, Book II is his tenth book, all but one being devoted to non-fiction crime. His earlier work, The Collected Works of Max Haines, is considered one of the finest collections of non-fiction crime stories ever produced in Canada. Crime Flashback is the apt title of Mr. Haines' newspaper column, which appears twice weekly in the Toronto Sun. The column is syndicated across Canada, appearing in newspapers from Newfoundland to British Columbia. Crime Flashback has been translated into French and Chinese. Max Haines Crime Flashback, a television series based on Max's column, will be syndicated internationally. A member of Crime Writers of Canada, Mr. Haines resides in Etobicoke, Ont. With his wife Marilyn and his daughters. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Editore: An Onyx Book New American Library A Division of the Penguin Group Penguin Books Canada Ltd., Markham, 1991
ISBN 10: 0451402391ISBN 13: 9780451402394
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition 2nd Printing. Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Moderate Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Light Moisture Damage (Edge Staining and Bleed-in for Approximately 1.1 cm, Front Cover to Page 14, Inclusive (Lower Half of Page)); Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. AMERICA'S #1 UNSOLVED SERIAL MURDER CASE. A true crime shocker by Carlton Smith & Tomas Guillen. 16 PAGES OF CHILLING PHOTOGRAPHS. $50,000 REWARD! See Inside For Details. CONTENTS: Author's Note and Acknowledgments; People; Notes on an Investigation; Prologue; BOOK ONE: Kraske, 1982-83 BOOK TWO: Adamson, 1984-86 BOOK THREE: Pompey, 1986-87 BOOK FOUR: Evans, 1988-90; EPILOG: Outcomes. SYNOPSIS: THE MOST SAVAGE SEX KILLER SINCE JACK THE RIPPER IS STILL AT LARGE IN AMERICA! During the 1980s, the Strip in Washington State had become an outdoor sexual supermarket, with countless young women openly offering themselves to any and all passing motorists. Then the first female corpses were found in the Green River. And the reign of terror and maddening mystery began. This is the story of a fiendishly clever killer and of the young women--some little more than children--who became his victims. It is a riveting account, too, of the Green River Task Force that spent $15 million on botanists, anthropologists, seers, psychologists, lasers that could lift fingerprints, and computers that match a face to a sliver of jawbone--all to no avail as the death toll mounted to 49, and still counting. Superbly detailed, this is chilling, edge-of-the-seat true crime written by two prize-winning reporters. Open-eyed and eye-opening, it is a journey into the horrifying heart of American sex and violence. - and - THE MISSING PIECE OF THE PICTURE OF HORROR In this book you will meet the young women who died hideously. Some of them had much to live for. Most of them were already committed to a life of drugs, pimps and prostitution. You will meet the men hunting their killer. Police officers who saw their careers destroyed and politicians defeated at the polls as clue after clue led to a dead end, suspect after suspect wriggled free, and new corpse after new corpse was uncovered. But there is one person you will not meet. Not on these pages at least. The Green River Killer himself. Like London's Jack the Ripper and San Francisco's notorious Zodiac, the Green River Killer is an unsolved serial murder case. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Editore: A Penguin Books Canada Ltd/McClelland and Stewart Book, Markham, 1989
ISBN 10: 0140126546ISBN 13: 9780140126549
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Illustrated (illustratore). First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: In The Arctic Grail, Pierre Berton follows the paths forged by a handful of stubborn explorers, who risked life and limb in their quest to find the Northwest Passage. This quest is peopled with larger-than-life adventurers and with the remarkable Inuit, without whom Arctic exploration would not have been possible. Pierre Berton was born in 1920 and raised in the Yukon. He spent his early newspaper career in Vancouver, where at 21 he was the youngest city editor on any Canadian daily. He moved to Toronto in 1947 and at the age of 31 was named managing editor of Maclean's magazine. He was an associate editor and columnist at the Toronto Star from 1958 to 1962 and has written and hosted several national television programs. He is the author of thirty-four books and has received three Governor General's Awards for works of non-fiction. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada and a member of the Canadian News Hall of Fame. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Editore: Penguin Books, Markham, ON, Canada, 1977
ISBN 10: 0140046801ISBN 13: 9780140046809
Da: Post Horizon Booksellers, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Nutter, David (photography) (illustratore). 1st Edition. 144pp. bw and colour photos, mostly bw. Colour photo illustrated wrapper is clean, showing moderate handling. Binding square and not creased. Quarto.
Editore: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, Markham, ON, 1984
ISBN 10: 0140074279ISBN 13: 9780140074277
Da: Marnie Taylor Books & Antiques, NIAGARA ON THE LAKE, ON, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First. first trade paperback edition, collection of science fiction short stories, very good plus condition, very little edgewear, no marks or writing to text.
Editore: Viking/Penguin Books Canada, Markham
Da: Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB), Regina, SK, Canada
1988. (Cloth) As new in as new dust jacket. 245pp. 8vo. Sequel to "Raisins and Almonds".
Editore: An Onyx Book New American Library Published by Penguin Books Canada Limited, Markham, 1990
ISBN 10: 0451401670ISBN 13: 9780451401670
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Thus 2nd Printing. Previous Owner Markings (A rather rough and messy map is drawn on the reverse of the rear cover in black ink; a notation in the same black ink is on the back page (no impediment to text).); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Heavy Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL--THE MOST HORRIFYING TRUE STORY OF FAMILY MURDER SINCE SMALL SACRIFICES. Darcy O'Brien, Author of Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers. WITH 8 PAGES OF DRAMATIC PHOTOS. BOOK NUMBER: 451-JE167. SYNOPSIS: To his patients and friends in Little Egypt, Illinois, Dr. John Dale Cavaness was a beloved and admired medical practitioner--a selfless humanitarian who often treated patients without charge. Very few people outside of the family knew about the other side of the "good" doctor: a sadistic Jekyll-Hyde personality who beat his wife, terrorized his sons, and carried on a tumultuous private life of boozing, brawling, womanizing, and disastrous financial manipulations, culminating in his 1984 arrest for an unimaginable crime--the murder of his 22-year-old son Sean. Police investigators, and a brilliant, relentless prosecutor, also suspect Cavaness in the unsolved shooting death of his heavily insured firstborn seven years earlier. This utterly harrowing true crime story probes the bizarre psychological dynamics behind these ghastly crimes--and the man who committed them.taking us deep into a hidden Gothic part of America where violence and murder form a long and bloody tradition. Darcy O'Brien's A Way of Life, Like Any Other won the Ernest Hemingway Award as the Best First Novel of 1978. The New Yorker called The Silver Spooner, his second novel, "a triumphant American tragedy" and termed O'Brien "a writer of distinction--real distinction." His nonfiction Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers (1985) was both critically hailed and a best-selling, popular success. O'Brien has also written articles and reviews for many publications, including The New York Times Magazine and New York. A Los Angeles native, O'Brien is a Princeton graduate and since 1978 has been Graduate Professor of English at the University of Tulsa. AWARDS: A Literary Guild Alternate Selection. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.