The Christmas murders : classic true crime stories / edited by Jonathan Goodman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goodman, Jonathan, editor.

Series:

True crime history series.

True Crime History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--History--19th century--Case studies.

Murder.

Murder--History--20th century--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime Here are ten murder cases of "the old-fashioned sort"--evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction--that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these grisly tales range from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New York (where a gentleman named Molineux provided a drastic cure for hangovers by putting cyanide in a gift-wrapped bottle of Bromo Seltzer) to an apartment in Glasgow (home of a wealthy Scotswoman whose demise seemed to have been satisfactorily explained by local constables, until Arthur Conan Doyle assumed the role of Sherlock Holmes) and from a builder's workshop in North London (site of a murder committed by a man called Furnace, who suited his criminal action to his name) to the elegant dwelling of a m#65533;nage #65533; trois near the Thames (scene of a puzzling poisoning that, years later, Raymond Chandler tried, unofficially, to solve). In The Christmas Murders, Jonathan Goodman has collected stories as fascinating and compulsively readable as one would expect from a writer described by Jacques Barzun as "the greatest living master of true-crime literature" and by Julian Symons as "the premier investigator of crimes past."

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Dedication""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Murders of Christmases Past""; ""The Christmas Sack Murder""; ""The Ratcliffe Highway Horrors""; ""Packaged Death""; ""The Case of Oscar Slater: (Published in 1912)""; ""The Distribution of Hannah Brown""; ""A Bedroom in Pimlico""; ""The Slaying of Leon Beron""; ""Murder of a Minder""; ""Sam's New-Year Resolution""; ""The Thirty-Guinea Murder""; ""Acknowledgements and Sources""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61277-931-X

1-61277-930-1

OCLC:

983741645