In This Collection Of Essays - Some Revised And Updated, Some Never Before Published, But All New To American Audiences - Prize-winning English Crime Historian Jonathan Goodman Turns His Attention To A Variety Of British And American Crimes From The 1820s To The 1980s, Some High Profile And Others Not. With The Author As Detective, Each Of Goodman's Essays Examines A Particularly Notorious Murder And Subsequent Trial. He Introduces The Readers To The 1923 Shooting At The Savoy Hotel In London Of Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey At The Hands Of His Wife, Madame Marie-marguerite Fahmy; He Revisits The Crime Of The Century, The Kidnapping Of The Lindbergh Baby In March 1932 Allegedly By Bruno Richard Hauptmann, And His Subsequent Execution For This Crime, Even Though This Case Against Hauptmann Has Come Under Scrutiny; And He Explores The 1980 Serial Killings Committed By Michele De Marco Lupo, A Gay Man Who Coaxed Other Homosexuals To Meet With Him, Then Strangled And Savagely Bit Them. --book Jacket. Some Slight Explanations -- The Passing On The Fourth Floor Back -- A Postscript On A Subsequent Murder At The Savoy -- Slaughter At The Governor's Lodge -- The Death Of The Devil's Disciple -- A Wolf In Tanned Clothing -- A Coincidence Of Corpses -- A Postscript On Mr. England's Surprising Autobiography -- The First Trunk Murder -- Also Known As Love -- Yours-truly? -- Doubts About Hauptmann -- An Anatomy Of Murders -- A Postscript On An Italian (or Lincolnshire) Subject. Jonathan Goodman ; Illustrations By Nina Lewis Smart. Includes Index.

Goodman, Jonathan

Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press

True Crime History Series, June 30, 2007

United States, United States of America

True crime series, Kent, Ohio, ©2006

Illustrated, PS, 2007

2014

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A new look at some gruesome and riveting murders In this grisly and gripping collection of essayssome revised and updated, some never before published, but all new to American audiencesprize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman turns his attention to a variety of British and American crimes from the 1820s to the 1980s, some high profile and others not. With the author as detective, each of Goodmans essays examines a particularly notorious murder and subsequent trial. He introduces the readers to the 1923 shooting at the Savoy Hotel in London of Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey at the hands of his wife, Madame Marie-Marguerite Fahmy; he revisits the Crime of the Century, the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby in March 1932 allegedly by Bruno Richard Hauptmann, and his subsequent execution for this crime, even though this case against Hauptmann has come under scrutiny; and he explores the 1980 serial killings committed by Michele de Marco Lupo, a gay man who coaxed other homosexuals to meet with him, then strangled and savagely bit them. Goodmans careful research and forensic work, together with his lively and engaging prose and fascinating subject matter, make these tales of murder a valuable addition to the field of true crime history.

viii, 358 p. : 24 cm
Includes index
Some slight explanations -- The passing on the fourth floor back -- A postscript on a subsequent murder at the Savoy -- Slaughter at the governor's lodge -- The death of the devil's disciple -- A wolf in tanned clothing -- A coincidence of corpses -- A postscript on Mr. England's surprising autobiography -- The first trunk murder -- Also known as love -- Yours-truly? -- Doubts about Hauptmann -- An anatomy of murders -- A postscript on an Italian (or Lincolnshire) subject

2023-06-28