{"product_id":"curriculum-of-murder-by-charles-boswell-lewis-thompson-first-edition-paperback-1962-collier","title":"Curriculum of Murder by Charles Boswell \u0026 Lewis Thompson [FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK] 1962 • Collier True Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCurriculum of Murder: Ten Stories of Students and Teachers Who Abandoned Their Studies to Commit Murder by Charles Boswell \u0026amp; Lewis Thompson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1962] COLLIER BOOKS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRare early true crime title.  A Collier mass market paperback original.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVintage paperback in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLight wear to cover and a spot of sticker ghosting to upper right corner. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReads like new! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eABOUT THE BOOK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eHere 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bookshop Apocalypse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49032819900665,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/3103\/1574\/files\/curriculumofmurder-1.jpg?v=1789003553","url":"https:\/\/bookshopapocalypse.com\/products\/curriculum-of-murder-by-charles-boswell-lewis-thompson-first-edition-paperback-1962-collier","provider":"Bookshop Apocalypse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}