The Murderer's Companion

by William Roughead

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Genres: True Crime, History, Crime

380 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1941

About the author

William Roughead was a well-known Scottish lawyer and amateur criminologist, as well as an editor and essayist on "matters criminous". He was the founding father of the modern "true crime" literary genre.