Curriculum of Murder by Charles Boswell & Lewis Thompson [FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK] 1962 • Collier True Crime

ABOUT THE BOOK

The murderers whose shocking crimes are the subject of these case histories were all connected with the academic world. All could boast a high I.Q., which aided them in eluding capture and defying the police. All were guilty of passionate, primitive crimes that illustrate Disraeli's adage, "Nature is more powerful than education."

These accounts are absolutely factual. Drawing upon police files and court records, the authors have used real names, places, and dates to document ten true, hair-raising crimes committed between 1840 and the present-eight of them enacted in the United States, one in France, and one in England.

Here you meet a unique group of killers-their intellectual powers distorted by jealousy, vengefulness, sexual frustra-tion, or greed. And in this book, you witness their scholarly, nearly successful attempts to score perfectly in the "cur-riculum of murder."

By the authors of Practitioners of Murder, Advocates of Murder, and Harvesters of Murder, all Collier Books originals in this series of True Crime for Connoisseurs.