The University of Texas at Austin

Law in Popular Culture collection

The
LEGAL STUDIES
FORUM

Volume 29, No. 2, 2005



 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Crimes Gone By
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Collected Essays of Albert Borowitz

1966-2005



 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface

 
United States
 
The Mayflower Murderer [1630]
The Janitor's Story [1849]
The Fatal Charm of Tamzen Parsons [1865]
The Canton Tragedy [1898]
Packaged Death [1899]
A Reader's Revenge [1911]
The Judge's Black Cadillac [1920]
The Medea of Kew Gardens [1965]
The Murder of the Boy Next Door [1965]
A Murder in Camelot [1982]
Valentine Overboard: The Murder Case of Dr. Scott Roston [1988]
The "Fatal Attraction" Murder [1989]
O.J. Simpson: America's Newest Crime of the Century [1995]

 
United Kingdom
 
The Trial of Jane's Aunt [1799]
Why Thackeray Went to See a Man Hanged [1836-1840]
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Stevenson [1788 & 1879]
"The Sinister Behind the Ordinary:" Emlyn Williams Night Must Fall [1922-1934]
The Snows on the Moors: C.P. Snow and Pamela Hansford Johnson on the Moors
     Murder Case [1963-1965]

France
 
Fouquet's Trial in the Letters of Madame de Sévigné [1661-1664] 789
Henri de Latouche and the Murder Memoirs of Clarisse Manson [1817] 801
Which the Justice Which the Thief? The Life and Influence of Eugène-François Vidocq
     [b. 1775 - d. 1857]
825

Italy
 
Portraits of Beatrice: The Cenci Case in Literature and Opera [1599]
The Ring and the Book and the Murder [1698]
Psychological Kidnapping in Italy: The Case of Aldo Braibanti [1962-1964]

Russia
 
The Eternal Suspect: The Ordeal of Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin [1850]

 
Sweden
 
Innocence and Arsenic: The Literary and Criminal Careers of C.J.L. Almquist [1851]

 
Music and Crime
 
Lully and the Death of Cambert [1677]
Finale Marked Presto: The Killing of Leclair [1764]
Salieri and the "Murder" of Mozart [1791]
Gilbert and Sullian on Corporation Law: Utopia, Limited and the Panama Canal Frauds
   [1888-1893]

 
Historical Studies
 
The History and Traditions of Fact-Based Crime Literature
Terrorism for Self-Glorification: The Herostratos Syndrome

 
Miscellaneous Literary Studies
 
"Under Sentence of Death": Literary Views on Capital Punishment 1009
The Jackal and I, or How to Do Research in London 1021
Dr. Manette and Other Prisoners: History and Imagination in A Tale of Two Cities 1027
The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1035
The First Ripper Book 1043

 
Interview
Selected Bibliography