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Dying Hard is a series of first-hand accounts by miners suffering from industrial diseases contracted while working in the fluorspar mines of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland. It tells the stories of men waiting for death to relieve them from the continuing agony of cancer and silicosis, and of the women who coped with the burden of raising children while their husbands' health deteriorated. Originally published in the mid-1970s under another title,...

A milkman shares a take-out supper with his cousin and then fatally stabs him....A man breaks into a shelter for abused women and snuffs out the life of his wife who has taken refuge there....A youth rapes and kills a woman on the landing of her apartment building....The boyfriend of a single mother batters her eighteen-month-old daughter to death. . . . In "Men of Blood, Elliott Leyton, described by William Langley in the "London Sunday Teleg...

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In this work, Elliot Leyton examines true-life cases of ordinary children who turned into deadly assassins. He investigates case studies to reveal the all-too-common pressures on middle-class life that have led to the alarming increase in this terrifying phenomenon.

This book goes straight into the minds of six multiple murderers and examines their psyche and motivation. Noted anthropologist Eliot Leyton has performed a detailed study to find out what makes these people tick, and what drives them to commit these bloody crimes of rape, torture and murder.

The horror of certain crimes is so resonant that it shocks all who hear of them to the very core. Such crimes are revealed within the pages of this book...

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The pioneering explanation of serial and mass murder in modern times, hailed by CBS News as "required reading for every homicide detective in America." In this new edition of his landmark 1986 study, pioneering anthropologist Leyton examines the psyche and motivations of his six original multiple-murderer subjects.

Delves into the minds of six of the most notorious murders of modern times and studies the motivation behind them.