{"product_id":"the-mammoth-book-of-the-history-of-murder","title":"The Mammoth Book of the History of Murder","description":"\u003cp\u003eMurder provided public entertainment for the Caesars of ancient Rome  and executions drew huge  enthusiastic crowds in Elizabethan England and at the Bastille in revolutionary France. The thirst for blood and cry for deadly vengeance lie deep in humankind  as criminologist Colin Wilson authoritatively illustrates in this millennial history of the most heinous of human crimes. Analyzing the tangle of motives behind murder and examining an astonishing variety of homicidal methods over the past twenty centuries  Wilson not only profiles infamous historical figures like Vlad the Impaler  Ivan the Terrible  Gilles de Rais  Countess Elizabeth Bathory  Marquis de Sade  and Jack the Ripper  but also studies particular categories of homicide and such phenomena as the Jacobean witch hunts and gangland killings of Americas Jazz Age. Wilsons chronicle includes  too  the serial killings  random shooting sprees  and cult murders that have troubled more recent times. The comprehensive history and illuminating analysis of how humans kill  and why  make crime-expert Wilsons volume one that no true-crime fan or student of criminology will want to miss.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44950187606069,"sku":"ByrdShop_0786707143","price":58.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780786707140.jpg?v=1770100211","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-mammoth-book-of-the-history-of-murder","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}