Serial Killers and Psychopaths: True Life Cases that Shocked the World

by Charlotte Greig, John Marlowe

Overview

A concise, yet detailed look at some of the most dangerous individuals who have ever lived. Starting with examples of some of the earliest recorded psychopaths and serial killers, the authors present a carefully chosen cross-section of history's most infamous criminals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788286572
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing
Publication date:	09/21/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	184,380
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Charlotte Greig graduated with an MA in Intellectual History and started freelancing as a writer and editor for a variety of magazines and newspapers, including NME and the Guardian. John Marlowe is the author of The World's Most Evil Psychopaths and Evil Wives. He is currently working on an annotated edition of the 1950 pulp exposé Montreal Confidential.
Nigel Cawthorne studied at University College, London, where he gained an Honours degree in Physics, before turning to writing as a career. He has been a writer and editor for over 25 years, the last 21 freelance. He has written, contributed to and edited more than sixty books, including Fighting Them On The Beaches: D-Day, 6 June 1944, The Battle of Britain, Vietnam: A War Lost and Won, Stalin, and The Story of the SS. His work has also appeared in over a hundred and fifty newspapers, magazines and partworks on both sides of the Atlantic - from the Sun to the Financial Times, and includes contributions to Nam, Eyewitness Nam and The Falklands War. Nigel also visited Vietnam with the legendary Tim Page, where he researched the material for Nam, Eyewitness Nam, and The Bamboo Cage. He is also the creator of websites on the Battle of Hastings, and Pearl Harbor.
Charlotte Greig graduated with an MA in Intellectual History from Sussex University, and started freelancing as a writer and editor for a variety of magazines and newspapers, including NME and the Guardian. In 1989 she wrote her first book, and since then has written four more and contributed to several others. In addition to lecturing and broadcasting, she has built a reputation as a specialist in popular music.  She is also a musician, and lives in Cardiff, Wales.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: A Bloody History
Chapter 2: Victorian Nightmares
Chapter 3: A New Century of Violence
Chapter 4: The Rise of the Serial Killer
Chapter 5: The Lust Killers
Chapter 6: Maniacal Murderers
Chapter 7: Rape Slayers
Chapter 8: Ruthless Rippers
Chapter 9: Spree Killers and Mass Murderers
Index