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William Bolitho • 25 Items / 7 Books, 13 Articles, 2 Reviews
Murder for Profit (1926)
by William Bolitho
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Published Reviews
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    Wholesale Murder (Review)
    Edmund Pearson
    Murder for Profit, by William Bolitho
    1. Murder for Profit by William Bolitho
    The Saturday Review, October 23, 1926, p. 231
  2. The Critics
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    A Critic at Large (3 Reviews)
    Alex Ross
    True crime
    1. On Murder by Thomas De Quincey
    2. Murder for Profit by William Bolitho
    3. Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
    The New Yorker, August 19, 1996, pp. 70-73
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    The Roving Critic (5 Reviews)
    Carl Van Doren
    Prejudices: Fifth Series, by H.L. Mencken
    1. Prejudices: Fifth Series by H.L. Mencken
    2. Notes on Democracy by H.L. Mencken
    3. Murder for Profit by William Bolitho
    4. Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe by Hervey Allen
    5. Preface to a Life by Zona Gale
    The Century Magazine, February 1927, pp. 507-511
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    Current Books (5 Reviews)
    Art, Poems, Criminology
    1. Primitive Negro Sculpture by Paul Guillaume and Thomas Munro
    2. Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg by Rebecca West and Carl Sandburg
    3. The Testaments of Francois Villon. by Francois Villon
    4. Murder for Profit by William Bolitho
    5. Master Man Hunters by Joseph Gollomb
    The Outlook, November 10, 1926, p. 344
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    Criminals and Vagabonds (7 Reviews)
    Robert Littell
    Murder for Profit, by William Bolitho
    1. Murder for Profit by William Bolitho
    2. Murder at Smutty Nose, and Other Murders by Edmund Pearson
    3. Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa by Cecil Gray and Philip Heseltine
    4. Murder in Fact and Fiction by Joshua A.R. Brookes
    5. A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen by Alexander Smith and Arthur L. Hayward
    6. Vagabonds All by Edward Abbott Parry
    7. Kyra Kyralina by Panait Istrati
    The New Republic, December 22, 1926, pp. 143-144
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    Books in Brief (9 Reviews)
    Our Mobile Earth, by Reginald Aldworth Daly
    1. Our Mobile Earth by Reginald Aldworth Daly
    2. Murder for Profit by William Bolitho
    3. Murder in Fact and Fiction by Joshua A.R. Brookes
    4. Types of Poetry by Jacob Zeitlin and Clarissa Rinaker
    5. W.N.P. Barbellion by Richmond H. Hellyar
    6. The Psalms by J.M. Powis Smith
    7. A Milton Handbook by James Holly Hanford
    8. Beyond the Milky Way by George Ellery Hale
    9. Psycho-Analysis for Normal People by Geraldine Coster
    The Nation, November 3, 1926, p. 458
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    Notes of a Rapid Reader (9 Reviews)
    The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
    1. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    2. The Plutocrat by Booth Tarkington
    3. The Book of Marriage by Hermann Keyserling
    4. Murder for Profit by William Bolitho
    5. A Man Could Stand Up by Ford Madox Ford
    6. Darwin by Gamaliel Bradford
    7. The Ordeal of Civilization by James Harvey Robinson
    8. The Making of the Modern Mind by John Herman Randall, Jr.
    9. Tar: A Midwest Childhood by Sherwood Anderson
    The Saturday Review, December 18, 1926, p. 445
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    A Shelf of Recent Books (11 Reviews)
    Frederick H. Martens
    Crabappleana
    1. Delinquents and Criminals by William Healy and Augusta F. Bronner
    2. Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa by Cecil Gray and Philip Heseltine
    3. The Overbury Mystery by Edward Abbott Parry
    4. Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo
    5. A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen by Alexander Smith and Arthur L. Hayward
    6. A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Charles Johnson and Arthur L. Hayward
    7. Captain Lightfoot: The Last of the New England Highwayman by F.W. Waldo
    8. Murder in Fact and Fiction by Joshua A.R. Brookes
    9. Vagabonds All by Edward Abbott Parry
    10. Trigger Fingers by Owen P. White
    11. Murder for Profit by William Bolitho
    The Bookman, February 1927, pp. 742-744