>C'mon, guys! Aren't we supposed to be hardboiled
he-man types? None of
>this death by strychnine soaked books and poison ink
stuff. In keeping
>with the gist of this list, (you know, "murder by
people who do it for a
>reason") shouldn't we be talking about beating
someone's brains out
>with, oh, I dunno, a telephone book?
See Jonathan Valin, _Final Notice_ (much of which, BTW, has
to do with
library security and a serial killer's mutilating art books).
The
telephone-book beating isn't a murder method here, but a
variation on the
third degree.
Kathy
Katherine Harper
Department of English
Bowling Green State University
kharper@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Visit the W.R. Burnett Page at http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~kharper/
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