THE PLEASURES OF MURDER Classic Stories of True Crime.

Hardback. Reprint. 19 classic true murder stories by some of the best writers of true crime - stories that are unusual, notorious or classics of their kind. From the fiendishly clever to the madly macabre. Contents include : Kenneth Allsop on the Chicago wheeler-dealer whose bluff backfired; Richard D. Altick on the man who trained nude bicyclists; Jacques Barzun on Burke and Hare; Dorothy Dunbar on the legendary Lizzie Borden and her axe; the last words of Arthur Flegenheimer, better known as Dutch Schultz; Jonathan Goodman on the minds of Brady and Hindley; Edgar Lustgarten on a clever cross-examination in the Neville Heath trial; Edmund Pearson on the sob-sisters who saved a woman from the electric chair; Henry David Thoreau on multiple scalpings in Massachusetts; James Thurber on the killing of the clergyman and his mistress; Richard Whittington-Egan on the unsolved Bloomsbury horror; Alexander Woollcott on the murder of a bridge partner; the anonymous account of the murder of an oranges and lemons seller in Fig Lane, 1685 + much more. 208pp. 8vo. h/back. F. in Vg+ dw.