Jack Olsen, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (365p) ISBN 978-0-312-24198-8
Veteran true-crime writer Olsen (Salt of the Earth,
etc.) takes the profiling of a psychopath a step farther than usual; drawing on interviews and his subject's own diaries to intimately reveal the life and inner workings of Keith Hunter...
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Jack Olsen, Author Delacorte Press $16.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-385-29391-4
Claude Dallas Jr. was raised in Upper Michigan and Ohio by a father whose philosophy was ""give a boy a gun and you're makin' a man.'' After high school, the young man went to the rugged border area of Idaho, Oregon and Nevada and worked as a cow-pun
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Jack Olsen, Author Atheneum Books $19.95 (479p) ISBN 978-0-689-11959-0
Lovell is a small town in Wyoming whose population is about 50% Mormon; Mormon women are traditionally expected to serve men unquestioningly. Thus, for 25 years John Story, who established his medical practice in Lovell in 1958, was able to molest...
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Jack Olsen, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-440-18148-4
A model of true crime writing and a Literary Guild selection in cloth, Olsen's psychological and physiological profile of serial killer Arthur Shawcross, who murdered 11 prostitutes after being surreptitiously paroled to Rochester, N.Y., includes...
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Jack Olsen, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-312-18362-2
Author of 27 books (Salt of the Earth, etc.), Olsen has found a winning protagonist in Fay Faron, the straight-shooting, busty blonde proprietress of Rat Dog Dick, a down-and-out San Francisco detective agency comprised of Faron and her trusty mutt,
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Jack Olsen, Author Doubleday Books $27.5 (500p) ISBN 978-0-385-49367-3
One part Kafka and one part Orwell, the story of Geronimo Pratt's conviction and imprisonment, for a murder committed while he was 350 miles away from the crime scene and under FBI surveillance, is a textbook case of abuse of the American criminal...
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Jack Olsen, Author Atheneum Books $19.95 (391p) ISBN 978-0-689-11831-9
Olsen (The Man with the Candy, ""Son'') has another winner in his account of the 1984 double murder of Texas lawyer James Campbell and his wife Virginia by their daughter Cindy and her lover, David West. It is a somewhat unusual true-crime study,...
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Jack Olsen, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (366p) ISBN 978-0-385-29935-0
Olson ( Cold Kill ), arguably the best true-crime author around, triumphs again with the story of a serial rapist on the West Coast and of an innocent man destroyed by the police and the justice system--which found him guilty of one of the rapes. It
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Jack Olsen, Author Delacorte Press $21.95 (520p) ISBN 978-0-385-29936-7
An experienced and skilled writer, Olsen ( Predator ) proves himself equal to the formidable task of studying serial killer Arthur Shawcross. Born in 1945 in upstate New York, Shawcross was perceived as different even in childhood (his classmates...
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Jack Olsen, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (367p) ISBN 978-0-688-10903-5
Olsen (Son) has established himself so firmly near the pinnacle of true-crime writers that anything from him not a masterwork is somewhat of a disappointment. That is the case with this story of a young African American from a posh Seattle suburb....
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Jack Olsen, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14406-7
Anyone who doubts that women are the stronger sex would be well advised to read this tale of Elaine Mayzsak Gere, who not only endured but triumphed over two violent tragedies in her family. Raised in California and trained to work hard even as a...
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