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BISHOP, Jim THE DAY LINCOLN WAS SHOT. London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1955 First Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket 8vo 264pp+illus. A dramatic hour-by-hour narrative of the events on Good Friday 1865 when President Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in full view of a fashionable Washington audience. The characters and events leading up to the fateful day; Lincoln's premonition of death; his jealous unstable wife; the flamboyant John Wilkes Booth; his flight and capture. Bibliography. Price: 10.00 GBP
BISHOP, Jim THE MURDER TRIAL OF JUDGE PEEL New York Trident Press 1962 First Edition Hardcover VG Good Dj 8vo 210pp. Dj is little chipped at edges and sunned. On March 7th, 1961, Joseph A. Peel went on trial for his life, accused in complicity in a murder so vicious and bizarre that it catapulted the sedate community of Fort Pierce, Florida, into the headlines. Five years earlier Judge C.E. Chillingworth of the Circuit Court in Palm Beach, and his wife Marjorie had disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Neither had been seen since and no bodies had been found. Finally the State Attorney was ready to prove that Joe Peel had organised the murders to protect his moonshine rackets. A classic American trial. Price: 10.00 GBP
