The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1989

The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1989] WILLIAM MORROW & CO.  *Half-title page signed and inscribed by author Joseph Wambaugh Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. Some shelf and rub wear to an overall attractive dust jacket; small blemish on back.   Book itself has some foxing across upper text block [see last photo]  otherwise very good.   Inside looks and reads beautifully.  1989 Edgar Nominee for Best Fact Crime.  The True Story of the Narborough Village Murders... Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the bloodi