Studies in Murder
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The Lizzie Borden case was to Pearson "without parallel in the criminal history of America." It takes center stage in Studies in Murder, and Pearson's version is still considered the classic account... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:081425022X
ISBN13:9780814250228
Release Date:May 1999
Publisher:Ohio State University Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.3" x 7.8"
Customer Reviews
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Murderers Walk the Pages Again Courtesy Mr. Edmund Pearson
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Outstanding overview of five famous murders of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with the lion's share of the pages going to Miss Lizzie Borden and the bizarre goings-on in Fall River, Mass in 1892. The other, less familiar cases are at least as interesting. I especially liked the chapter on the Nathan murder, a cause-celebre in New York City in the 1870's. Pearson's wonderfully biting sense of humour comes out in his disdain for the masses, and for those bizarre characters who, simply for the notoriety, manage to insert themselves into famous cases.I would like to point out to the reviewer from Perth Amboy that the Borden case was not solved by Arnold Brown or anyone else. He came up with a solution, and like so many true crime writers, labeled it "Final". The genre is filled with books purporting to be the "Final Chapter," "The Final Solution" etc. But the real solutions to cases like this are lost in time. We can't solve the Borden murder (though I think we can all figure out the LIKELY murderer in this case without too much difficulty), we can only luxuriate in it's delightful domestic creepiness, preferably while sitting by the fire on a winter's evening reading this book.Enjoy.
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