Colin Wilson, Order of Assassins: the psychology of murder

Colin Stanley (University of Nottingham)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Kerry Myler (Newman University), David Ian Paddy (Whittier College), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1972

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction

Resources

This book completes Wilson’s “Murder Trilogy”, which began with The Encyclopedia of Murder (London: Arthur Barker, 1961) and was followed by A Casebook of Murder (London: Leslie Frewin Publishers, 1969). The first was intended to be a basic reference book on the subject, the second a sociological study, and this volume a psychology of murder. It was published in the UK by Rupert Hart-Davis in October 1972. Although translated into French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese, it was not published in the United States until 2015 and then as an e-book only. An extract from Chapter 6 appeared in HPL: A tribute to Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Birmingham, Alabama: privately printed, 1972).

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Citation: Stanley, Colin. "Order of Assassins: the psychology of murder". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 May 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=23941, accessed 01 June 2023.]

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