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BERRY-DEE, CHRISTOPHER: : Unmasking Mr Kipper: Who Really Killed Suzy Lamplugh?

LONDON.SMITH GRYPHON LIMITED,1995.

ISBN 1856850978.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustarted,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white,red and grey lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges with a small red ink spot towards headband area and along with fore-edges lightly aged/toned - as usual/ normal - but otherwise generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered - top two corners minimally bumped - original plain red cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and generally clean,plain white endpapers - top corner of ffe diagonally clipped.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,vii-xpp+1-241pp [paginated] includes Acknowledgements,author's Introduction,20 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w illustrated scenic and auto+biographical photographs in 1 block,between pp148/9; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a contents list/ table with a b/w location map to it's verso and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book. The kidnapping in 1986 of Suzy Lamplugh by the man who called himself Mr Kipper is one of the most notorious and distressing of all unsolved crimes.Since the conviction of Michael Sams in 1992 for the murder of young prostitute Julie Dart and the abduction for ransom of estate agent Stephanie Slater,Christopher Berry-Dee has insisted that the one-legged killer be investigated by the police for the murder of Suzy Lamplugh.The digging-up by the Metropolitan Police of part of of the garden of what was Sams home at the time of Suzy Lamplugh'd disappearance is belated recognition of the author's theory. There can be no doubt as to Mr Berry-Dee's authority to suspect Michael Sams.For the last three years (then 1995),he has worked his way into the head of the vicious killer,listening as Sams recounted to him,face to face and without remorse,his gruesome murder of Julie Dart and his confession to raping Stephanie Slater.Then came his hints at kidnapping and murdering Suzy Lamplugh,for which Sams went on to demand £50,000 for giving information on where she is buried. During his investigation,the author has amassed some 30,000 case papers,500 crime photographs and just about every letter written from jail by Sams to his wife and close friends.Even the car and the moped used for Stephanie Slater's abduction fell into the author's possession, along with pictures given exclusively to him, which show how Sams was targetting estate agents years before Stephanie Slater was lured to an empty house in Birmingham. Mr Berry-Dee makes many new revelations relating to the to crimes for which Sams has been convicted.But his most startling discoveries are the links he establishes between Sams and the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh, including a long history of attempted abductions and extortions not previously known to the public. Even more alarmingly,the author,for the first time,presents compelling evidence that Sams worked with an accomplice - a man who has never been identified and who still walks free to murder again. 'Unmasking Mr Kipper' delves adroitly into the mind of a psychopath as never before. Using years of personal experience working with some thirty American and British serial killers, mass murderers and common criminals,Christopher Berry-Dee dissects the mind of Michael Sams with a razor-sharp precision to expose the truth of his bizarrely dysfunctional and tortured personality.By the end of the book,few will doubt that the author has correctly identified the man who chose the innocent Suzy Lamplugh to be his first murder victim. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can now,in some cases,cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

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