MURDERERS SANE AND MAD Case Histories in the Motivation and Rationale of Murder.

Hardback. 1st UK edition. Can a mentally normal human being deliberately kill another human being? That is the question put in this book. Sanity is a legal, not a medical term, but everyone can distinguish between a completely sane man and an obvious psychotic. It is in the borderline between the two that the confusion arises. In the form of case histories of actual murderers, arranged in sequence from the (at least relatively) normal to the completely disoriented, the author attempts to answer this question. Hardback. Not all the accused in these cases pleaded insanity, but the problem of their mental responsibility arises in every instance. Includes : Leopold & Loeb, William Heirens, Christie and Barbara Graham amongst others. 239pp. 8vo. h/back. Nr. F. in Vg. pcdw.