Murder in Plain English: From Manifestos to Memes--Looking at Murder Through the Words of Killers

by Michael Arntfield and Marcel Danesi

Book Overview

This is the first book to examine murder through the written word--not only the writings of the killers themselves, but also the story of murder as told in literary fiction and the crime dramas that are now a staple of film and television. The authors--a criminologist specializing in cold cases, written evidence, and forensic science, and an anthropologist who has dealt with the signs and ciphers of organized crime and street gangs in his previous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633882535
• ISBN13: 9781633882539
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"