True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office By Arthur Train reface The narratives composing this book are literally true stories of crime. In a majority of the cases the author conducted the prosecutions himself, and therefore may claim to have a personal knowledge of that whereof he speaks. While no confidence has been abused, no essential facts have been omitted, distorted, or colored, and the accounts themselves, being all matters of public record, may be easily verified. The scenes recorded here are not ...
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True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office By Arthur Train reface The narratives composing this book are literally true stories of crime. In a majority of the cases the author conducted the prosecutions himself, and therefore may claim to have a personal knowledge of that whereof he speaks. While no confidence has been abused, no essential facts have been omitted, distorted, or colored, and the accounts themselves, being all matters of public record, may be easily verified. The scenes recorded here are not literature but history, and the characters who figure in them are not puppets of the imagination, but men and women who lived and schemed, laughed, sinned and suffered, and paid the price when the time came, most of them, without flinching. A few of those who read these pages may profit perhaps by their example; others may gain somewhat in their knowledge of life and human nature; but all will agree that there are books in the running brooks, even if the streams be turbid, and sermons in stones, though these be the hearts of men. If in some instances the narratives savor in treatment more of fiction than of fact, the writer must plead guilty to having fallen under the spell of the romance of his subject, and he proffers the excuse that, whereas such tales have lost nothing in accuracy, they may have gained in the truth of their final impression. ARTHUR TRAIN CRIMINAL COURTS BUILDING, NEW YORK CITY, April 20, 1908. This books contains many intriguing cases such as "The Woman in the Case", "The Lost Stradivarius", "Five Hundred Million Dollars" and many others. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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Very Good. Later. Very good hardcover. Later printing. Stamp inside cover. Pages slightly brown. Edges of spine slightly rubbed. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Good. Later printing. Brown stamped cloth. Illustrated with black and white plates. Good only with a cracked front hinge, bumped corners, and a cocked spine.
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Small 8vo. Dark olive green blind-embossed leatherette with gilt spine lettering. 348pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Faint edgewear only, mainly at head and tail of spine. A tight, attractive later printing of this 1908 text, many of which involve forged documents. This New York County assistant district attorney (1875-1945) and prolific mystery novelist pioneered the courtroom thriller genre and immortalized attorney Ephraim Tutt.
