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by Ellen J. Green (Goodreads Author)

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Are there Book Club questions available for Murder in the Neighborhood? I'm hosting my True Crime Book Club, Murder & Merlot , in September and have chosen , Murder in the Neighborhood to discuss. Meeting at a neighborhood sandwich shop is apropos with photos and newspaper headlines from the public domain. Now all I need is a set of 5-10 questions to start the discussion! Any help would be much appreciated.

Ellen Green 1) Who was most responsible for the shooting that morning of September 6th, 1949?
2) Did you end up having sympathy for Howard?
3) Do you think Freda …more1) Who was most responsible for the shooting that morning of September 6th, 1949?
2) Did you end up having sympathy for Howard?
3) Do you think Freda could have stopped Howard that morning?
4) Do you think Raymond could have stopped Howard that morning?
5) How did the shooting in 1949 compare to the shootings that are happening today?
5) If someone had not taken the gate, do you think the shootings would have happened that morning?
6) Do you think Mitchell Cohen was wrong for making the decision to directly commit Howard to the hospital in October of 1949, or should he have let him go through the criminal justice system?
7) If he was arrested, do you think he would have been found not guilty by reason of insanity?
8) What do you think the best punishment for Howard would have been?
9) Do you think it was wrong that the 13 murder indictments were dropped in 1980?
10) what one thing do you think could have prevented this tragedy from happening? (less)

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