Memoirs of a Murder Man

Arthur A. Carey, Howard McLellan

• Publisher: Muriwai Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789126006
• Year: 2018

Arthur A. Carey's autobiographical Memoirs of a Murder Man was first released in 1930, and focuses on the author's detective work in homicide cases.
The book includes chapters on such infamous cases as the 1920 slaying of Joseph Bowne Elswell, an American bridge player, tutor, and writer during the 1900s and 1910s, and the Barrel Murder in 1903, when New York police found the body of U.S. Secret Service agent Benedetto Madonia stuffed in a barrel, similar to the New Orleans "barrel murders" of the previous decade.
A gripping book!

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER I-SMALL BOY AT THE MAN HUNT
• CHAPTER II-PICTURE OF A THIEF
• CHAPTER III-IN “THE IMMORTAL’S” PICTURELAND
• CHAPTER IV-MY FIRST MURDER PICTURE
• CHAPTER V-LITTLE MURDER JOBS IN BETWEEN
• CHAPTER VI-THE MAN IN THE STRAW HAT
• CHAPTER VII-THE POISON CYCLE RESUMES
• CHAPTER VIII-THE POISON CYCLE SPINS GIDDILY
• CHAPTER IX-FIN DE SIÈCLE
• CHAPTER X-MURDER WHILE YOU WAIT
• CHAPTER XI-THE MURDER CLINIC GETS A START
• CHAPTER XII-THE WAY GANGS GO
• CHAPTER XIII-DABBLERS IN CRIME ANALYSIS
• CHAPTER XIV-BUSHWHACKERS AND RIPPERS
• CHAPTER XV-A HORSESHOER JOINS THE CLINIC
• CHAPTER XVI-GLAMOROUS BACKGROUND
• CHAPTER XVII-MAGNETIC BUTTERFLIES
• CHAPTER XVIII-THE MAN WITH FIVE HUNDRED NAMES
• CHAPTER XIX-IDEAL MURDER INQUIRY
• CHAPTER XX-FAULTY PICTURES BY FEMININE HANDS
• CHAPTER XXI-BUNGLERS’ BUNDLES
• CHAPTER XXII-MURDER BY INVITATION
• CHAPTER XXIII-A PHILOSOPHY OF MURDER
• CHAPTER XXIV-MURDER AS A SPECTACLE
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