Innocence and arsenic : studies in crime and literature / by Albert Borowitz
1977, First Edition. New York [etc.] ; London : Harper and Row. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 170 pages; Physical desc. : xv, 170p. ; 22cm. Subject: Crime in literature - Addresses, essays, lectures. Literature - Special subjects - Crime - Critical studies - Essays. Contents: The Snows on the Moors: C. P. Snow and Pamela Hansford Johnson on the Moors Murder case -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Stevenson -- Why Thackeray went to see a man hanged -- The mystery of Edwin Drood -- Salieri and the "murder" of Mozart -- New gaslight on Jack the Ripper -- M. Tullius Cicero for the defense -- Psychological kidnapping in Italy: the case of Aldo Braibanti -- Henri de Latouche and the murder memoirs of Clarisse Manson -- The Jackal and I, or how to do research in London. Notes: 'A Joan Kahn book' - half title page. Item #173508
ISBN: 0060104139
Price: €10.95