Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computer matches hunters and victims and keeps tab of point totals, the game spread to the Illinois Institute of Technology, and last month reached the University of Chicago, where 100 paired hunters and victims, including four members of the faculty, were last week furiously playing at murder...
Even worse is the dilemma of whether to give sound legal advice that may well tempt the defendant to give false testimony. When the accused confides his guilt in the 1959 bestseller Anatomy of a Murder, for example, his lawyer replies: "If the facts are as you have stated them so far, you have no defense, and you will be most likely electrocuted. On the other hand, if you acted in a blind rage, there is a possibility of saving your life. Think it over, and we will talk about it tomorrow." Is this unethical? Even though perjury may result...
...resolving into a detective story of evidence gathering, Celestine conceives an irresistable attraction to Josef and seduces him. In bed, she teases him: "Tell me it was you who killed little Claire." We lose confidence in her motives, though she later tries to frame Josef for the murder; he sounds plausible telling her "We're alike. You're just like...
...very first scene. The night is dark; Frobe approaches a woman seated alone on a bus at a rest stop somewhere between Nice and Grasse, drags her into a small park and stabs her. The victim is his wife, and Frobe has such an airtight alibi that the murder case would be swiftly closed except for a rich young stranger (Maurice Ronet), who is interested in uxoricide for its instructional value. Caught between a neurotic wife who won't give him a pleasant word or a divorce and a delectable mistress (Marina Vlady) who will give him just about...
...ravine. The coincidence of two dead wives materializing at bus stops piques the interest of Inspector Robert Hossein, a sadist who practices police brutality with chilling Gallic esprit. Soon accusations and counteraccusations begin to ricochet off the walls. Having committed a fairly perfect crime at the outset, Frobe takes murderous pride in his achievement. Though Ronet is guilty only of intent to murder, he feels responsible for his wife's suicide...