FOUR STARS

NARRATED BY VARIOUS CRIME WRITERS, THIS 1990 BOOK, PUBLISHED BY CAROL PUBLISHING CORPORATION,  IS ABOUT GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER.

MY 300 PAGE SOFT-COVER COPY, WHICH I PURCHASED IN 1992, IS BATTERED AND EAR-MARKED WITH A FEW WATER STAINS HERE AND THERE, BUT STILL VERY READABLE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.

THERE ARE TWENTY MURDERS DISCUSSED IN THIS BOOK. AMONG THEM ARE THE MURDERS OF  ELIZABETH SHORT AKA THE BLACK DAHLIA; WILLIAM DESMOND TAYLOR, A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE DIRECTOR; AND HARRY WHITECLIFFE AKA WILHELM BLUME. ALL PRE 1950 AND ALL STILL UNSOLVED TO THIS DAY. GIVEN THE STRIDES IN CRIMINOLGY AND FORENSICS SINCE THEN, THEY CONTINUE TO BAFFLE AND REMAIN A MYSTERY.

[STILL] HAD ME AT PAGE ONE,

EVEN THOUGH I’VE READ THIS BOOK MANY TIMES. 

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