Murder in plain english From Manifestos to Memes-Looking at Murder Through the Words of Killers.

This is the first book to examine murder through the written word-not only the writings of the killers themselves, but also the story of murder as told in literary fiction and the crime dramas that are now a staple of film and television. The authors-a criminologist specializing in cold cases, written evidence, and forensic science, and an anthropologist who has dealt with the signs and ciphers of organized crime and street gangs in his previous...