Murder Casebook Magazine 111 Deadly Duo John Norman Collins Leonard Lake 1992 SKU 1478

1992 — Issue 111 is catalogued as a Marshall Cavendish publication from 1992. I cannot verify an exact day and month from the supplied image, so I would not invent one.

Description

Original Murder Casebook – Issue 111, from Marshall Cavendish’s long-running weekly true-crime partwork “Investigations into the Ultimate Crime.”

This particular issue is titled “Deadly Duo” and focuses on John Norman Collins and Leonard Lake. Both men are prominently featured in separate black-and-white photographic portraits on the front cover, framed in the issue’s distinctive yellow/gold colour scheme.

The cover headline reads “Deadly Duo”, with the issue examining the crimes associated with Collins and Lake. This is Issue 111 in the Murder Casebook series, and the issue identification and featured subjects are independently catalogued as “Deadly Duo of Sex Killers – John Norman Collins and Leonard Lake.”

The magazine belongs to the collectible Marshall Cavendish Murder Casebook series, which presented individual criminal cases, historical investigations and notorious offenders in an illustrated magazine/partwork format.

Magazine Highlights

The supplied cover confirms:

• Murder Casebook
• Issue 111
• “Deadly Duo”
• John Norman Collins
• Leonard Lake
• Investigations into the Ultimate Crime
• Marshall Cavendish weekly publication
• Original UK cover price of £1.50
• Black cover design with yellow/gold and white typography
• Two historical black-and-white portrait photographs
• Vintage true-crime / crime-history collectible

Bibliographic listings describe Issue 111 as a 32-page, approximately 21 × 29 cm, stapled card-cover magazine.

It would make a good addition to a collection of Murder Casebook back issues, Marshall Cavendish partworks, vintage true-crime publications, crime-history magazines, John Norman Collins material or Leonard Lake material.

Condition

Pre-owned vintage condition – please study the supplied photograph carefully as it forms an important part of the description.

From the image provided:

• Front cover remains complete, bright and highly presentable.
• Main title, issue number, portraits and cover text remain clear and readable.
• There is visible general surface rubbing and light scratching, particularly noticeable against the black background.
• Spine/left edge has rubbing and small scuffed areas, consistent with storage and handling.
• Lower-left corner shows noticeable edge and corner wear.
• Bottom edge has light rubbing/scuffing.
• Upper corners show minor handling wear.
• Right edge appears generally sound with some light age-related wear.
• There are scattered small surface marks across the cover.
• Magazine appears reasonably flat, with only minor natural handling/age shape visible.
• No obvious major front-cover tear is visible.
• No obvious handwriting or ownership annotation is visible on the photographed cover.
• No significant staining is apparent from the supplied image.

Overall, this appears to be a good collectible vintage copy with normal age-related handling and edge wear, rather than a mint example.

No poster is visible or confirmed in the supplied image, so none is included in this description.

SKU 1478