THE SHOW OF VIOLENCE

Hardback, 1st UK edn. A book which tells why people kill, and how murder can be prevented. The author cites the cases of Martin Lavin, gangster, who feigned insanity to evade a murder trial, and who miraculously made a remarkably quick recovery and went on to kill again, and Albert Fish, a man whose sexual life was of unparalleled perversity, who virtually confessed to having strangled a 10yr. old girl, but whom "prosecution" psychiatrists pronounced sane. Fish was duly executed. Werthasm provides several other cases in detail, but these two can be taken as sufficiently representative. With Index. 279pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate o/w Vg+ in sunned Vg. dw.