The Christmas Murders: Classic Stories of True Crime Contributor(s): Goodman, Jonathan (Author), Borowitz, Albert (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 160635082X ISBN-13: 9781606350829 Publisher: Kent State University Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General |
Dewey: 364.152 |
LCCN: 2011003219 |
Series: True Crime History (Kent State) |
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.57" W x 8.55" (0.65 lbs) 207 pages |
Themes: - Holiday - Christmas - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime Here are ten murder cases of "the old-fashioned sort"--evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction--that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these grisly tales range from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New York (where a gentleman named Molineux provided a drastic cure for hangovers by putting cyanide in a gift-wrapped bottle of Bromo Seltzer) to an apartment in Glasgow (home of a wealthy Scotswoman whose demise seemed to have been satisfactorily explained by local constables, until Arthur Conan Doyle assumed the role of Sherlock Holmes) and from a builder's workshop in North London (site of a murder committed by a man called Furnace, who suited his criminal action to his name) to the elegant dwelling of a m nage trois near the Thames (scene of a puzzling poisoning that, years later, Raymond Chandler tried, unofficially, to solve). In The Christmas Murders, Jonathan Goodman has collected stories as fascinating and compulsively readable as one would expect from a writer described by Jacques Barzun as "the greatest living master of true-crime literature" and by Julian Symons as "the premier investigator of crimes past." |