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Title: Murder Most Rare by Michael D. Kelleher ISBN: 0-440-23473-5 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 12 January, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Want to meet some real female serial killers? Read on...
Comment: "Murder Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer" by Michael D. & C.L. Kelleher, Dell Publ., 1999, ISBN: 0-440-23473-5 is a 304 page softcover pocket book having 3 appendices, bibliography & index.
Authors have provided excellent compilation of 88 known female serial killers (FSK) of the 21st. century, contrasts them with male serial killers (MSK), divides them into 9 classes based on motive (Black Widow, Angel of Death, Sexual Predator, Revenge, Profit, Team Killer, ? Sanity, Unexplained & Unsolved), and provides a uniform summary chart for each FSK (includes birth information, age of activity, victim information including methods, motives & case disposition).
The book has a wealth of information, useful statistical data on frequency of FSK subclasses and primary weapons (guns, poison, lethal injection, suffocation, etc.) and 5 pages on the novel Munchausen sydrome by proxy (MSBP) and an alphabetical listing of FSK. We are informed that the most rare (1 case!) of "Murder Most Rare" FSK in America is the Sexual FSK (Eileen "Lee" Wuornos).
The book is an easy-to-read relatively non-technical discourse on FSK. The only grammatical gaffe is the serial confounding (and disconcerting) use of the word "systemically" for the intended "systematically." The pleonasm, verbal effusion and prolixity sets it apart from most technical manuals, but this is patenly something the authors may have done for a perceived or needed additional emphasis (or clarification) and may be relished by many readers.
For anyone interested in criminal profiling (FSK or not), this book is a must have and must read, and at a bargain. I wished I had gotten the hard cover edition.
Rating: 2
Summary: Bland, and redundant
Comment: This book really doesnt go in depth into any of the cases, just gives a brief summation and rating as to the profile of the killers. I want something with more grit and substance. If you are merely into skimming the subject, then this is the book for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another great read . . .
Comment: I discovered this book after reading the author's latest, "This is the Zodiac Speaking," which I loved. This book is just as strong and interesting.
If you like to read something genuinely new, this is it. I doubt that many Americans are even aware of the number of female serial killers among us. I certainly wasn't. This book covers it all -- the women, their motives, and their crimes. Also, like the author's other book, this one goes outside the box and takes up new possibilities when looking at female serial killers. The typology that is used (something new) is fascinating and seems much more comprehensive than what is usually thrown around in profiling circles. Moreover, it just makes good sense.
Don't pass it up.
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Title: The New Predator: Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers by Deborah Schurman-Kauflin ISBN: 1892941589 Publisher: Algora Pub Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Women Who Kill by Ann Jones ISBN: 080706775X Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 08 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Deadlier Than the Male: Stories of Female Serial Killers by Terry Manners ISBN: 0330337114 Publisher: MacMillan Pub Ltd Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers by Carol Anne Davis ISBN: 0749005351 Publisher: Allison & Busby Pub. Date: 02 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Wicked Women : Black Widows, Child Killers, and Other Women in Crime by Betty Sowers Alt, Sandra Wells, Sandra Wells ISBN: 1569802068 Publisher: Barricade Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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