Bloodletters and Badmen; A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present
New York: M. Evans and Company, 1973. Eighth printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 640 pages. Illustrations (there are over 300 photographs and lithographs). Bibliography. Index. Two column format. Jay Robert Nash (born November 26, 1937, in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American author of more than 70 books on myriad aspects of true crime. Among Nash's crime anthologies are Encyclopedia of Western Lawmen and Outlaws, Look For the Woman, Bloodletters and Badmen, and The Great Pictorial History of World Crime. He has also compiled his exhaustive research of criminal behavior into a CD-ROM entitled Jay Robert Nash's True Crime Database. Jay Robert Nash describes himself as an "entrepreneurial businessman". Nash has won Best Reference citations from the American Library Association for four of his books, including Darkest Hours. However, he has said that his books are "seeded with information to detect any unauthorized use or duplication"; the precise nature of these copyright traps may include incorrect information in otherwise factual entries, or wholly fictitious entries. Sally G. Waters, writing for the Library Journal, called Nash's work "fascinating" and recommended that it be used only for background research, verifying the information based on the sources in Nash's bibliography. In 2008, The Library of America selected Nash's story "The Turner-Stompanato Affair" for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime. The new edition of this narrative encyclopedia of American criminals from the Pilgrims to the present day brings back into print one of the most successful books on crime ever published. From a Kirkus item: A work of American criminal biography which begins with shy, tubercular Burton (""Bud"") Abbott who strangled a fourteen year-old girl and burned at San Quentin for it, ends with dapper syndicate gangster Abner ("Longy") Zwillman, and twixt and tween there are more (about 400) outlaws, rapists, kidnappers, killers, bombers, forgers, horse thieves, hijackers, and robbers than you can shake a gat at. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Reference works, Law Enforcement, Crime, Encyclopedia, Criminals, Justice, Compendium, Murder, Mayhem, Robbers, Assassins, Arrest, Conviction
ISBN: 0871311135
[Book #85574]
Price: $100.00