The fifth volume in the "Famous Trials" series. The five murders described here are all very different and were committed years apart, but they are linked by the difficult question of the degree of mental responsibility of the accused.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An example of what can be accompllished in a small volume,
This review is from: Famous Trials (Paperback)
John Mortimer selected the materials for this book. The introduction gives an excellent summary of all the pieces included.
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Stuffy Little Book,
By Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Famous Trials (Hardcover)
The thrill of these cases must lie in the telling, because I can see now that some of them are unutterable dull when told so flatly. The case of Alma Rattenbury, the most poignant of all classic murder cases, and one which was treated with great depth and honesty in Terrence Rattigan's late play CAUSE CELEBRE, is here just another boring story of adultery and murder, not even worthy of a Lifetime Channel for Women miniseries. F. Tennyson Jesse is better at telling the story of Madeline Smith, and the man who drowned all his brides and inspired the Chaplin film MONSIEUR VERDOUX gets an elegant summing up by Eric Watson, a writer new to me.
Crime is a funny thing and I suppose they asked John Mortimer to edit (or "select") this volume because of his reputation for writing the famous Rumpole books and his expertise at the law. He is one of the world's most overrated writers so he doesn't really add anything to the book, just gets his name printed in huge letters much bigger than those of the real editors. One of the ironies of today's push for big marketing is that the people who really do the work are often ignored.
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