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| Title | : | Classic Crimes (New York Review Books (Paperback)) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.70 (615 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0940322463 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-25 |
| Language | : | English |
Utterly engrossing, these accounts of pre-meditated mayhem and miscarried justice also cast a powerful light on the evil that human beings, and human institutions, find both tempting to contemplate and all too easy to do.. Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and his true crime stories, written in the early 1900s, are among the glories of the genre. Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland
Between 1889 and 1949 he attended every murder trial of significance held in the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, publishing his accounts of them in a series of bestselling books. William Roughead (1870-1952) was born in Edinburgh, where he studied law and became an expert on criminology. He held the legal title of W
''A volume which must henceforth be the cornerstone of any library of crime.'' -- The New York Times''Intelligence, skepticism, and a flair for old-fashioned storytelling.'' -- Joyce Carol Oates
sally tarbox said "One cannot have too much of a good murder". Covering twelve major cases from Scotland and England in the 18th and 19th centuries, this is a brilliantly written book. As I started, I did wonder how a work on crimes - some of which are well-documented by other writers - was chosen as a New York Review Book. But the author's pithy turn of phrase and legal know-how add much to his accounts. Thus (in discussing alleged poisoner Madele. Justice gang agley Harry Eagar The British dote on their criminals, and, at one remove, so do we Americans. The names of Burke and Hare or Madeleine Smith are as well-known to aficionados of true crime as Machine-gun Kelly or Ted Bundy. One reason was William Roughead, a writer to the Signet (Scotch lawyer) who around the turn of the last century wrote up many famous trials.This selection of 12 covers nearly two cent. "The Holy Grail of True Crime Literature" according to John Stark Bellamy II. Simply put, William Roughead was and is the greatest true crime writer of them all. Combining unusually supple storytelling talents with an inimitable, pawky sense of humor, he remains the best prose stylist chronicling human depravity since, well, the compilers of the King James Bible. A Scot by birth, Roughead became a Writer to the Signet at the turn of the last century, a privileged
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