Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gregory Zilboorg, prominent Manhattan psychiatrist, complained that legal technicalities deprive psychiatrists of the opportunity to study criminals. A murderer, he said, "is treated as the private property of the State, and no gaze of free inquiry may rest on his psyche." Only a psychiatrist, he said, can solve the "nuclear problem" of impulsive murder: why a murderer kills with slight provocation, and why he chooses a certain victim, often a complete stranger, at a given moment. He told of the case of the Manhattan upholsterer, John Fiorenza, who killed Mrs. Nancy Titterton in her Beekman Place apartment three years...
...MURDER TO HOUNDS-Edward Acheson-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Murder in a neurotic fox-hunting Virginia family, combining an innocuous love story with the most engaging Englishman in recent crime fiction...
SOME DAY I'LL KILL You-Dana Chambers-Dial ($2). Murder and mayhem in the Connecticut countryside. Fast and witty, despite the somewhat Flash Gordon plot...
...CASE OF THE PERJURED PARROT-Erle Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). The "testimony" of a profane pet parrot figures in the coroner's hearing on the murder of an eccentric millionaire. Standard Perry Mason, slightly frayed at the edges...
...Garfield is convincing as a "tough" prize-fighter, but the picture is melodramatic and uninspired. Fleeing to Arizona to escape conviction for a murder of which he is innocent, the fighter meets the Dead End Kids, May Robson, and a blonde, who manage to revive the clean American spirit in him. Mr. Garfield's acting and the Kids' wisecracking do not prevent the picture from being overlong and overdone...