MURDER AND ITS MOTIVES

Hardback. The author considers murder to group itself naturally into 6 divisions based on motive, namely : Murder for gain; Murder from revenge; Murder for elimination; Murder from jealousy; Murder from lust of killing and Murder from conviction. The actual cases she features to illustrate her point are : William Palmer (gain); Constance Kent (revenge); the De Quérangals (elimination); Mrs. Pearcey (jealousy); Neill Cream (love of killing); Orsini (conviction). With Bibliog. 259pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of F. Tennyson Jesse with her personal b/plate to ffep, with a previous owner's b/plate to fpd. Tiny label to fpd, browned eps and edges, sunned sp. Vg.