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Murder on Several Occasions.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodman, Jonathan.
- Series:
- True Crime History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murder.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ashland : The Kent State University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- A new look at some gruesome and riveting murdersIn this grisly and gripping collection of essays-some revised and updated, some never before published, but all new to American audiences-prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman turns his attention to a variety of British and American crimes from the 1820s to the 1980s, some high profile and others not.With the author as detective, each of Goodman's essays examines a particularly notorious murder and subsequent trial. He introduces the readers to the 1923 shooting at the Savoy Hotel in London of Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey at the hands of his wife, Madame Marie-Marguerite Fahmy; he revisits the "Crime of the Century," the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby in March 1932 allegedly by Bruno Richard Hauptmann, and his subsequent execution for this crime, even though this case against Hauptmann has come under scrutiny; and he explores the 1980 serial killings committed by Michele de Marco Lupo, a gay man who coaxed other homosexuals to meet with him, then strangled and savagely bit them.Goodman's careful research and "forensic" work, together with his lively and engaging prose and fascinating subject matter, make these tales of murder a valuable addition to the field of true crime history.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Some Slight Explanations
- The Passing on the Fourth Floor Back
- A Postscript on a Subsequent Murder at the Savoy
- Slaughter at the "Governor's Lodge
- The Death of the Devil's Disciple
- A Wolf in Tanned Clothing
- A Coincidence of Corpses
- A Postscript on Mr. England's Surprising Autobiography
- The First Trunk Murder
- Also Known as Love
- Yours-Truly?
- Doubts about Hauptmann
- An Anatomy of Murders
- A Postscript on an Italian (or Lincolnshire) Subject
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781612779324
- 1612779328
- OCLC:
- 868287186
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