Bk. 1, ch. 7, sct. 1
The Ministry of Fear (1943)
“In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.”
Introductory Essay, p. xiv
The Encyclopedia of Modern Murder 1962-1983 (1983)
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