Mystery and Crime Craig, Jonathan: Case Of The Petticoat Murder. v1. 17 Dec. 08

[Dr. Drib]

This title was released under a Creative Commons License with a link to the book here. There is additional acknowledgement AND a link again placed at the end of the book. Book was acquired from Munseys, BUT REFORMATTED BY ME TO MY SPECIFICATIONS.

http://www.munseys.com/book/18691/Ca...at_Murder,_The
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This is a police procedural published in paperback in 1958.

This is from the teaser, that I included in the book:

“She was as greedy as she was beautiful. She was also very dead. So she belonged to me. Why? Because I'm Detective Peter Selby of the New York City Police Department. The young ones, the pretty ones, the ugly ones are mine. Just so long as they're dead. Sometimes it's Park Avenue, sometimes it's Greenwich Village, sometimes it's a dingy West Side walk-up-but it's always murder.”


Here’s a quote about the book:

“The main characters are two homicide cops, Pete Selby and Stan Rayder. They work out of the 6th precinct, and most of their cases (I think there were 10, all for Gold Medal) are in Greenwich Village. The book I picked to re-read (for no particular reason) was CASE OF THE PETTICOAT MURDER (1958).

“The book opens, as nearly every Selby/Rayder case with the discovery of a beautiful nude murder victim. It proceeds with very little action but a lot of attention of details (both of forensics and of regular police routine). And with plenty of cross examination by Selby. Craig was really good with dialog, and the story moves right along. Like all the crimes Selby and Rayder get involved with, this one has plenty of sexual overtones. Here's Selby: "People do weird things for sexual enjoyment; strangling themselves and others is only one of them. The idea, of course, is to stop just the other side of climax and just this side of death; but by the time that point is reached, the victim is often in such a state of excitement that he no longer recognizes it. In our years together, Stan and I have cut down a lot of them: men dressed in women's clothing, girls with their bodies covered with obscene words written in lipstick, men and women with their stomachs bristling with needles or forearms livid with cigarette burns….”

Like all the books I assemble on MobileRead, this too was assembled to reflect human intervention and artistic judgment.

I hope you enjoy it.

Don