SAN FRANCISCO MURDERS

This upholds the high quality of a popular series of true murders, expertly edited and introduced by Joseph Henry Jackson, of the San Francisco Chronicle. Among mystery fiction writers he includes Anthony Boucher, Lenore Glen Offord, Hildegarde Teilhet; among newspapermen, Oscar Lewis, Robert O'Brien, Alfred Meyers, John Bruce, Allan R. Bosworth. The cases- facts and legends- of famous crimes range from 1870 to 1936, reflecting changing years, methods of pursuit, types of murders, and add further data for fanciers of true crime in capable analysis and entertaining essays.