The Trial of Jean Pierre Vaquier - Notable British Trials Series
London and Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, Ltd, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xxiv, 208. Frontis. subject portrait photograph. Illustrated with nine additional plates. Publisher's red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, device stamped in blind on the cover. Age tone offsetting to endpapers, edges lightly soiled and foxed, spine lightly sunned, owner ink signature and ink stamps on endpapers and top edge (Edward A. Dieckmann.) Binding tight, leaves crisp and bright. Very Good. Item #5922
A wireless operator at Biarritz tried for the 1924 murder by strychnine poisoning of Alfred Poynter Jones, the spouse of bankrupt caterer Mabel Theresa Jones. Dieckmann was a San Diego police detective.
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