Crimes of passion, Case studies, Comparative Study, France, England, Canada, United States, Unresolved cases 

"For the second time, celebrated crime-fiction writer Howard Engel turns his hand to nonfiction. Setting out in the nineteenth century, Engel travels from France and England to Canada and the United States, with engaging detours along the way. As he discovers, le crime passionel, a concept originating in France, has a special place in many legal codes around the world. Engel explores more than twenty-five classic, infamous and still unresolved cases." - Voila 

Content:
The French have a word for it: Crime passionnel : Yvonne Chevallier -- When lovely women stoops to folly : Ruth Ellis; Jean Harris -- Oh, beware , my lord, of jealousy. It is a green-eyed monster... : Alan Norman; John Sweeney; O.J. Simpson -- Those old love letters : Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters -- The media : The Mannings; Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray -- When newspaper editors were in season : Henriette Caillaux -- Unhappy valley and the red armchair: Noblesse Oblige : Lord Broughton; The Marquis de Bernardy de Sigoyer -- Disguises and disappearances : Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen; Cyril Belshaw; Peter Hogg -- The hunger of love and a slice of America : Jean Liger; Lorena Bobbit -- By love obsessed. Hell hath no fury... : Pauline Dubuisson; Mary Eleanor Pearcey -- Families, I hate you! : Alpna Patel; Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme (Anne Perry); Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb; Lizzie Borden; Susan Smith -- Provocation and responsibility : Elizabeth Martha Brown; Elizabeth Workman; Violet Watkins; Ralph Klassen; Kenneth Peacock; Patricia Ann Hawkins.  

Includes bibliographical references and index.