A Rose for Her Grave by Ann Rule

A Rose for Her Grave (Collectible Ann Rule True Crime Paperback)

The First Volume of Ann Rule's Crime Files, Led by the Chilling Randy Roth Case

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: A Rose for Her Grave: and Other True Cases
• Author: Ann Rule
• Publisher: Sphere, London
• Publication Date: 2007
• ISBN-13: 9780751510706
• Edition Details: Sphere edition. First published in the USA in 1993 by Pocket Books; first published in Great Britain in 1995 by Warner Books. Ann Rule's Crime Files, Vol. 1.
• Binding: Publisher's illustrated paperback wrappers, perfect bound.
• Physical Format: Mass market paperback, approximately 180 x 110 mm. 513 pages.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good (VG)
• Exterior / Wraps: The glossy illustrated wrappers are bright and clean to the front cover. The spine shows a few light vertical stress lines, mainly in the lower half. The back cover has a small patch of paper loss and residue where a price sticker has been removed, partly over the barcode. Light edge wear and whitening along the cover edges and corners, in keeping with a used mass market paperback.
• Interior: The text block is clean, tight and sound, with cream pages and even toning throughout. The book opens without splitting. The fore-edge and bottom edge are evenly toned. No writing or markings.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

A Rose for Her Grave and Other True Cases is the first volume in Ann Rule's Crime Files series, a run of true crime anthologies that brought together her case studies of murder and the people drawn into them. The collection gathers six cases.

The title story follows Randy Roth, a charming but controlling man from the Pacific North-West who preyed on women and children, and who was convicted of murdering wives for financial gain. Rule tells it with the close attention to victims, families and investigators that made her name. The title story won the 1994 Anthony Award for best true crime book.

This is the Sphere paperback, issued in Britain, and a good reading or shelf copy for collectors of Ann Rule and of modern true crime writing.

Author Profile: Ann Rule

Ann Rule (1931-2015) was born in Lowell, Michigan. A former Seattle police officer, she became a full-time writer in 1969 and went on to become one of the best-known American true crime authors.

Her first bestseller was The Stranger Beside Me (1980), about Ted Bundy, whom she had come to know while working on a Seattle crisis hotline. Small Sacrifices (1987) is among her other notable books, alongside the long-running Crime Files anthology series.