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LADY WITH AN AXE

... 'thirties Mr. Edward Percy and Mr. Reginald Denham, old hands at the game, based a successful thriller on the cause célébre of Lizzie Borden. This young lady, according to the ruthless rhyme, took an axe, gave her father forty whacks, and when she saw what she ...

Published: Wednesday 23 November 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 769 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... same entertainment value and in wartime, or indeed any time, this is a book to be grateful for. Mrs. Belloc Lowndes calls Lizzie Borden A Famous a gtuc[y in Conjecture. She seeks the real Murder motive that lay behind the murder which, in Reconstructed. ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2103 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

FROM WIT TO CHARM: Claude Cockburn's new volume of autobiography; memories of France in the 'Twenties; a ..

... recommend to all amateur criminologists all the thousands of us-- who find great enjoyment in such lucid exposition. With LIZZIE BORDEN-- The Untold Story (Gollancz. 21s.), Mr. Radin has given us the results of his own most astute investigations and his own ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 885 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

SPIES AND MURDERERS: Eric Ambler's new book of essays; biography of Picasso; the Birmingham Rep; new fiction

... different from his others. It is, in fact, a collection of essays on THE ABILITY TO KILL (Bodley Head. 16s.), including four Lizzie Borden Memorial Lectures, dealing with crime in England, Scotland, France and Criminal London. The main themes are the mentality ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1521 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS

... thought about it they kept to themselves. (Italics mine.) AMERICAN crime history is also a novel in Mrs. Belloc Lowndes's Lizzie Borden (Hutchinson, 8s. 3d.). In 1892 Lizzie, Sunday-school teacher and church worker, was charged with a fiendish murder. Her ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2874 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review