Classic Crimes by Roughead, William

Classic Crimes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780940322462)

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Classic Crimes by Roughead, William

Classic Crimes

$27.95
Classic Crimes by Roughead, William

Classic Crimes

$27.95
Format: Paperback
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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. 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.

Author: William Roughead
ISBN-10: 0940322463
ISBN-13: 9780940322462
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2000
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.00w x 1.58d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2001 pg. 118
By William Roughead
By William Roughead
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William Roughead (1870-1952) was born in Edinburgh, where he studied law and became an expert on criminology. 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 best-selling books. He held the legal title of Writer to His Majesty's Signet and was an editor of the Notable British Trials Series.

Lucy Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, Folk Photography, and most recently, The Other Paris. She translated F駘ix F駭駮n's Novels in Three Lines and has written introductions to several other NYRB Classics, including Classic Crimes by William Roug­head and Pedigree by Georges Simenon. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.

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