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Criminologist Robin Odell has complied this gruesome gallery of
cases from all over the world, revealing the growth in serial
slayings, contract killings and middle-class murders and
investigating what motivates people to commit the ultimate crime.
As well as gangsters and ordinary felons, "Murder: The Book"
includes doctors, millionaires, housewives, children, lawyers,
accountants, officers and gentlemen who have succumbed to the
killing instinct. Behind the sensational names concocted by the
tabloid press - 'Boston Strangler', 'Dracula Killer', 'Night
Stalker', 'Granny Killer' - lurk real murderers committing acts of
violence in circumstances often more bizarre than fiction. Arranged
in an easy-to-use A-Z format, the book contains over 500 cases from
serial killers such as Dennis Nilsen and Ted Bundy, to those such
as Jeremy Bamber and Stevn Benson who dispatched their parents for
money; from murderous New Zealand teenagers whose story made a
successful film, to the many doctors and nurses who took life
instead of saving it; from unsolved murders such as the murder of
Little Gregory in France to the paid assignments of John Waynes
Hearn, a Vietnam veteran who killed to order. The result is a new
classic of true crime, a definitive work on murder as a worldwide
phenomenon.
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