Strangers
John Lanchester, 11 July 1991
Serial Murder: An Elusive Phenomenon
edited by Stephen Egger.
Praeger, 250 pp., £33.50, October 1990,0 275 92986 8 Show More
edited by Stephen Egger.
Praeger, 250 pp., £33.50, October 1990,
“... passage) and Serial Killers, the energetic but infuriatingly sloppy book by a psychologist called Joel Norris, could hardly be more alarming about the extent of the phenomenon. Norris cites an unspecified report from the FBI to the effect that, in 1983, ‘approximately five thousand Americans of both sexes and all ... ”