Murder Cases of the Twentieth Century: Biographies and Bibliographies of 280 Convicted or Accused Killers - Hardcover

Frasier, David K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786401842 ISBN 13: 9780786401840

Publisher: McFarland Publishing, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Frasier, David K.

About this title

About the Author:

David K. Frasier is also the author of Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases (2002) and Russ Meyer--The Life and Films: A Biography and a Comprehensive, Illustrated and Annotated Filmography and Bibliography (1997). He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

From Library Journal:

Frasier, a reference librarian at Indiana University, has created a near-perfect reference source on murder. From this century (up to 1992), he has taken 280 of the most famous serial killers (both convicted and accused) and presented them in a thorough yet nonlurid fashion. Profiled here are both American and foreign murderers, many from earlier years who may not be familiar to readers. Each entry, which includes birth and death dates, aliases, location of the murders, weapons used, and number of victims, is prefaced with a list of movies or plays, if any, about the case and followed by an annotated (and opinionated) bibliography, so that a reader can cut through the mass of knockoffs and newspaper rehashes to good books about the case. An appendix lists cases by classification (e.g., "parricide"); an author and title index provides entry to the bibliographies; and a general index includes the movie titles (e.g., a reader looking for the case featured in the movie Killing in a Small Town is led directly to that of Candace Montgomery). Useful, entertaining, extremely well written, and meticulously researched and formatted, this book is essential for all true-crime and general reference collections.?Sally G. Waters, Stetson Law Lib., St. Petersburg, Fla.
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About this edition

• Publisher: McFarland Publishing
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0786401842
• ISBN 13: 9780786401840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 552