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The Christmas Murders

The Christmas Murders

Borowitz, Albert
Goodman

Paperback

Series: True Crime History (Kent State)

Literary CriticismGeneral World HistoryTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 160635082X
ISBN13: 9781606350829
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: Apr 20 2011
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.55
Language: English
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 ménage à trois near the Thames (scene of a puzzling poisoning that, years later, Raymond Chandler tried, unofficially, to solve).

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