BOMC Hardcover Edition published by W.W. Norton & Co., N.Y., 1978, 370 pages in Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket shows some wear with some light scuffing and edge-wear. There is a small tear along the top & bottom of the DJ's spine. There is a phone number written on the inside front DJ flap that is also on the front End Sheet. Text is clean and unmarked. Author Vincent Bugliosi became a national figure in 1969 when he prosecuted Charles Manson and his followers for the Sharon Tate murders (and later documented it in his bestseller "Helter Skelter"). However, three years earlier in 1966 he achieved national notice for his brilliant prosecution of an equally bizarre criminal mind, this is the story. On December 11, 1966 a murder is committed in a blue-collar neighborhood of Los Angeles following a series of unsolved attempted murders. The victim is a well-liked young man with no enemies, shot three times in the head and two times in the chest point-blank in his house at midnight and his house is burnt down. No weapon, no eyewitnesses, and no suspects. Sixteen months later there is another murder and again in a well-to-do Los Angeles neighborhood. This time it is a young bride shot and bludgeoned to death in her Jaguar in her carport at a luxury apartment complex. Again no weapon, no eyewitnesses, and no suspects. But these two seemingly unrelated murders are really the result of the same bizarre individual and Bugliosi working with shreds of evidence - jottings in an appointment calendar, suspicious bank transactions, a spending spree in Las Vegas are the starting points in an investigation and trial that rocked California and brought Bugliosi to national attention. A fascinating, rivetting story with more tension and twists than fiction. A hard book to put down. Prompt shipping with a Free Delivery Confirmation.
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- PublisherW.W. Norton
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0930882199
- ISBN 13 9780930882198
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages370
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