By: Eigen, Joel Peter
Price: $59.95
Publisher:
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Johns Hopkins University Press: 2003
Seller ID: 5874
ISBN: 0801874289
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: As New in As New dust jacket
First Printing. Publisher's full black textured cloth, gilt (blue) lettering on spine, textured endpapers. 8vo. xii, 223 pp. Includes detailed Notes and Index. Publisher's release blurb laid in. Among the defendants appearing in Unconscious Crime are a sleepwalking, homicidal nursemaid; a "morally vacant" juvenile poisoner; a man driven to arson by a "lesion of the will"; and a Jekyll-and-Hyde assailant who underwent his transformation into beast-man while on the stand. These people are not characters from a mystery novelist's vivid imagination, but rather defendants who...
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