The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION] 1980

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The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story by Ann Rule

FIRST EDITION / SECOND PRINTING [1980] W.W. NORTON & CO

An incredibly rare signed First Edition of Ann Rule's groundbreaking debut.  

Title page has been signed and lovingly inscribed by the late mistress of true crime herself, Ann Rule. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  

Dust jacket is in great shape; some general shelf / rub wear but bright and in tact; looking stunning in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.  

Book itself is excellent.  Light wear to boards. Reads as new! 


THE DEFINITIVE WORK OF AMERICAN TRUE CRIME 

Utterly unique in its astonishing intimacy, as jarringly frightening as when it first appeared, Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me defies our expectation that we would surely know if a monster lived among us, worked alongside of us, appeared as one of us. With a slow chill that intensifies with each heart-pounding page, Rule describes her dawning awareness that Ted Bundy, her sensitive coworker on a crisis hotline, was one of the most prolific serial killers in America.
Bundy would confess to killing at least thirty-six young women from coast to coast, and was eventually executed for three of those cases. Drawing from their correspondence that endured until shortly before Bundy's death, and striking a seamless balance between her deeply personal perspective and her role as a crime reporter on the hunt for a savage serial killer -- the brilliant and charismatic Bundy, the man she thought she knew -- Rule changed the course of true-crime literature with this unforgettable chronicle.   - Bookshop Apocalypse