Strangest Case by Singer Kurt (14 results)

Paperback. Condition: VG. paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: VG / VG. Hardcover in dust jacket with slight edgewear.

Paperback. L92-595 very good Edited by Kurt Singer. paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Dust jacket has some tears and soiling; Good condition. Brown patch on front end page. Very Good + condition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Not Stated. This is a mass market paperback. The inside cover has the light browning wear and the previous owner's name in pen. The cover has a half inch chip off the top right corner edge and some crease along the spine and scuffing over the back.

mass market paperback. Condition: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 157 pages; good mass market paperback; scuffs to cover; slight nicks to cover edges; tips bumped; fore edge front blurb page chip; tanned pages; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with an unmarked text in a pictorial dust jacket which has strengthening to the verso and some small loss at the foot of the upper joint, 207pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is a bit marked and torn - very little paper loss. Internally clean and tightly bound. A little foxng and tanning. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. both book and jacket are very good++. the jacket has a few small closed tears and is lightly shelf rubbed. the book has a previous owner's signature. the binding is square and tight. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good to Very Good. 1st US edition. 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. Tony Palladihno (dust jacket illustration) (illustrator). Book.…

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, original red paper over boards, gilt lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket. "Collection of real-life stories, told from international police archives." Very Good, light shelf wear, in Very Good dust jacket, tape reinforcement at spine ends, edgewear, a few closed tears, fading to spine.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Singer, Kurt, editor. My strangest case / by police chiefs of the world ; edited by Kurt Singer. First edition. London: W. H. Allen, 1957. Hardback, VG, in Good, unclipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear to edges, some amudges to white background on reverse, and a few small closed tears repaired from the inside with brown paper tape. Small creases to inside front flap. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. Light tanning lines to endpapers. 207pp., contents clean and bright. Kurt Singer was an anti-Nazi activist and spy during World War II whose dozens of books include works on espionage and biographies on subjects as diverse as Hitler henchman Hermann Goering and actor Danny Kaye. Singer's major books on crime were "My Greatest Crime Story, by Police Chiefs of the World" and "My Strangest Case, by Police Chiefs of the World." He died in 2005, aged 94. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…