Killer Verse: Poems Of Murder And Mayhem

In forms as various as the melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard-boiled poems of twentieth-century noir, here are assembled the most colourful villains and victims ever to be immortalized in verse, from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden and Mafia hit-men.

• | Edited By: Harold Schechter
• | Publisher: Everyman
• | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2011
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 1841597902
• | ISBN-13: 9781841597904