MURDER IN FACT AND FICTION

Hardback. Accounts of child, sex, political, train and other murderers. Chapter headings include : The Responsibility of the Criminal; The Psychology of Murderers; The Noble Murderers; The Political Murderer; The Wholesale Murderer; Train Murderers; Sex Murderers (with reference to Jack the Ripper); The Woman Murderer; The Child Murderer; Baffled Murderers; Murder in Fiction; Some Suggestions for Legal Reform. 284pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. Blue cloth/gilt lettering. Lightly foxed and browned edges, v. sl. wear to head/tail of sp. which is also sl. sunned. Small indentation to middle of fore-edge of fr. cover o/w Vg+.