Crimes of Horror

Edité par Crescent Books a division of Crown Publishers Inc, New York

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BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Blue Bleed to Reverse Side from Boards); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 189755. ALSO KNOWN AS: This material first appeared in Crimes and Punishment copyright 1973/76 Phoebus Publishing Company. CONTENTS: The Acid Bath Blood-drinker; The Happy Poisoner; The Triangle Fire; The Fraternity of Torture; The Beast in the Bedroom; The Bedroom Killer; Doctor Death; Doctor Crippen; The Black Dahlia; A Poisoner in the Family; "She's Been Used!"; The Blazing Car Murder; Nightmare at the YWCA; The Fatal Fantasies of Ronald True; The Spanish Fly Murders; The Honeymoon Murder; On the Trail of a Rapist; The Vampire of Dusseldorf; Murder Most Foul; The Maids of Horror; An Expert Slaughterman; L'Ogresse; The Beast of the Apocalypse; Mother Duncan's Devotion; The Missing Body of Stocking Pelham. SYNOPSIS: This book presents the most horrifying and unhuman crimes. All crimes seem unnatural and repulsive, but there are those which go beyond natural revulsion and present the student of crime with criminal acts which are beyond understanding, almost beyond belief. For motives of greed Waite poisoned both his in-laws, who had always been kind to him. For the same motive Mrs McKay was kidnapped, but although her family tried to ransom her, her body was never found. The "Vampire of Dusseldorf" committed his horrifying crimes for sexual gratification, as did the soldier who took a child from her hospital bed, then molested and killed her. Jealousy, too, can lead to crime, as in the case of the possessive American "Mother Duncan". However it is the murders which have no motive which shock us most. The brutal, pointless killing of the beautiful American girl "The Black Dahlia"; the grisly slaughter of Madame Lancelin and her daughter by their two maids, the Papin sisters--both these show crime at its mot inhuman, inexplicable and horrific. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

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Titre
Crimes of Horror
Auteur
Hall, Angus (Edited by)
Éditeur
Crescent Books a division of Crown Publishers Inc, New York
État de l'article
Good
Jaquette
Good
Reliure
Hard Cover
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Past Pages

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