Master Detective  |  Master Detective December 2019
Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of true crime writing. Eloquent and pioneering, its subject is the heinous slaughter of Kansas farmer Herbert Clutter, his wife Bonnie and their teenage children Kenyon and Nancy. The killers struck on November 15th, 1959 - 60 years ago as this issue goes on sale - and Capote’s book was published in 1966. To mark the anniversary of the crime that inspired a classic, we present a fascinating contemporary account. Get this issue and read “In Cold Blood – The Truth About The Clutter Massacre.”
“The Hangings Of Albert Pierrepoint” continues in this issue with a fascinating - and brilliantly researched - account by expert Traugott Vitz of the “secret,” post-war executions of war criminals carried out by Pierrepoint in Germany and Austria. Don’t miss it.
Highlights this issue include:
* From “Hot Mom” To Cold-Blooded Killer...To Death Row
* European Crime Report: “‘21 Dead’ At The Hands Of Germany’s Lunchtime Poisoner,” “He Remembered The Killer – Four Years Later,” “Pizza Supper That Never Was,” “Sister ‘Gouged Out Model Girl’s Eyes’”
* The Hangings Of Albert Pierrepoint – Part Seven: Hangings By The Hundred
* Soho Killing Of The “Lion Tamer”
* Scotland’s Classic Cases: Greenock Murder That Ended A Hangman’s Career
* In Cold Blood
* Unsolved Murders Of The 1950s: Middlesbrough’s Tattooed Taxi Driver Mystery
* Peggy’s Story Of Murder
* MD Forum: Death Of A Nazi Dad
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Master Detective Master Detective December 2019.