The murder and the trial
Type
Book
Authors
Category
United Kingdom
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Publication Year
1958
Publisher
Pages
xi, 340 pages
Subject
United Kingdom Famous Trials
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Abstract
"Edgar Lustgarten's studies in crime have already earned him an international reputation. He possesses, as Anthony Boucher says, the four essential qualities in the art of factual crime-writing: Literacy, scholarship, insight into human character, and irony. To these Mr. Lustgarten adds a quality wholly his own- a subtle sense of how courtroom and an unmatched skill in making clear to the reader the niceties of courtroom drama. The seventeen essays in the Murder and the Trial include many of the long studies from Mr. Lustgarten's previous books: but there are nine shorter pieces as well, most of them hitherto unknown in America. The book affords a fine variety-variety in crime and in advocacy, in period and in personality..." - Cover
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Contents:
Edith Thompson -- Steinie Morrison -- Neill Cream -- Travers vs. Wilde -- William Herbert Wallace -- Norman Thorne -- Frederick Seddon -- Lizzie Borden -- Richard Pigott -- The brothers Staunton -- Barney Blitz -- Chapman vs. Stewards -- Smith vs. The Winning Post -- Adelaide Bartlett -- Robert Wood -- Elvira Barney -- Jones and Hulten.
Edith Thompson -- Steinie Morrison -- Neill Cream -- Travers vs. Wilde -- William Herbert Wallace -- Norman Thorne -- Frederick Seddon -- Lizzie Borden -- Richard Pigott -- The brothers Staunton -- Barney Blitz -- Chapman vs. Stewards -- Smith vs. The Winning Post -- Adelaide Bartlett -- Robert Wood -- Elvira Barney -- Jones and Hulten.
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