The Reason Why ed. Ruth Rendell (Crown, 1996, 0-517-70347-5, $24.00, xi+244pp, hc, an)
Reprint (Jonathan Cape 1995) anthology of writings about murder.
- vii · Introduction · Ruth Rendell · in
- 1 · 1. “O, Hideous Sequel”: In the Family
- 3 · Oedipus the King · Sophocles; translated by Paul Roche · ex (r)
- 4 · Genesis IV · [uncredited] · ex from The Bible (r)
- 5 · Cain · Lord Byron · ex 1821
- 6 · The Cenci · Percy Bysshe Shelley · ex 1819
- 8 · Adam Bede · George Eliot · ex William Blackwood & Sons, 1859
- 10 · The Medea of Euripides · Euripides; translated by Rex Warner · ex (r)
- 11 · The Dain Curse [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · ex Knopf, 1929
- 13 · A Shropshire Lad · A. E. Housman · ex C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1896
- 14 · An American Dream · Norman Mailer · ex The Dial Press, 1965
- 16 · Malice Aforethought · Francis Iles · ex Gollancz, 1931
- 17 · Fragments from My Diary · Maxim Gorky · ex (r)
- 17 · The Trial of Madeleine Smith · F. Tennyson Jesse · ex 1927
- 18 · Arden of Feversham · [uncredited] · ex 1592
- 20 · The Trial of Dr. Hawley Garvey Crippen · Filson Young · ex 1920
- 21 · Othello, the Moor of Venice · William Shakespeare · ex Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies by William Shakespeare, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623
- 22 · Her Second Husband Hears Her Story · Thomas Hardy · ex (r)
- 23 · The Innocent · Ian McEwan · ex Jonathan Cape, 1990
- 25 · George Smith, The Murder of Bessie Mundy, 1912 · Gordon Honeycombe · ex The Murders of the Black Museum 1870-1970 by Gordon Honeycombe, 1982
- 27 · Double Indemnity · James M. Cain · ex Avon, 1943
- 29 · We, the Accused · Ernest Raymond · ex Cassell, 1935
- 31 · 2. “The Way of His Wickedness”: Murder for Revenge
- 33 · Doctor Thorne · Anthony Trollope · ex Chapman & Hall, 1858
- 34 · Chronicles of a Death Fortold · Gabriel García Márquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ex 1986
- 37 · The Foundling · Heinrich von Kleist; translated by David Luke & Nigel Reeves · ex The Marquise of O & Other Stories by Heinrich von Kleist, Penguin, 1978
- 38 · The Secret Agent · Joseph Conrad · ex Methuen, 1907
- 40 · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · ex Every Week March 5 1917
based on material from the play “Trifles”.
- 44 · Lolita · Vladimir Nabokov · ex Olympia Press, 1955
- 46 · No Name · Wilkie Collins · ex Sampson Low, 1862
- 47 · “All the Better to See You With” · Ciaran Carson · pm 1989
- 49 · ’Tis a Pity She’s a Whore · John Ford · ex 1633
- 51 · The Sacrilege · Thomas Hardy · pm (r)
- 57 · The Letter · W. Somerset Maugham · ex Hearst’s International April 1924
- 58 · Mary Barton · Elizabeth Gaskell · ex 1848
- 59 · An Uncle’s Advice · Ovid; translated by Horace Gregory · pm from Metamorphoses, 1958
- 61 · Salome · Oscar Wilde · ex Elkin Mathews & John Lane, February 1894
translated from the French (Salomé).
- 63 · Hassan · James Elroy Flecker · ex Heinemann, 1922
- 66 · A Vendetta · Guy de Maupassant; translated by H. N. P. Sloman · ex (r)
- 67 · The Vengeance of a Skull · Cyril Tourneur · ex from The Revenger’s Tragedy, 1607
- 69 · The Great Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ex Scribner's, 1925
- 71 · Billy Bathgate · E. L. Doctorow · ex Random House, 1989
- 72 · Metonymy, or The Husband’s Revenge · Rachel de Queíroz; translated by William L. Grossman · ex 1967
- 75 · 3. “To Bask in the Sun”: Killers for Gain
- 77 · II Samuel XI · [uncredited] · ex from The Bible (r)
- 79 · Thérèse Raquin · Émile Zola; translated by L. W. Tancock · ex 1867
- 80 · The Queen of Spades · Alexander Pushkin; translated by Paul Debreczeny · ex 1834
- 83 · The Murder of the Mandarin · Arnold Bennett · ex Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett, Chapman & Hall, 1907
- 83 · To Gain a Throne · Alison Weir · ex from The Princes in the Tower, 1992
- 85 · Mademoiselle de Scudéry · E. T. A. Hoffmann; translated by R. J. Hollingdale · ex 1982
- 87 · Murder Revisited · John Rowland · ex 1961
- 89 · Macbeth · William Shakespeare · ex Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies by William Shakespeare, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623
- 90 · The Payoff · Stanley Ellin · ex Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1971
- 92 · Great Shipwrecks and Castaways · Charles Neider · ex 1952
- 93 · The Garden of Smoke · G. K. Chesterton · ex The Story-teller October 1919
- 95 · Crime and Punishment · Fyodor Dostoevsky · ex (r)
- 97 · 4. “Forbidden Actions”: Guilt and Remorse
- 99 · Some Character-Types Met with in Psychoanalytic Work · Sigmund Freud · ex 1915
- 101 · His Brother’s Keeper · W. W. Jacobs · ex The Strand Magazine December 1922
- 102 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ex The Pioneer January 1843
- 104 · Mary Queen of Scots · Antonia Fraser · ex 1969
- 106 · The Dream of Eugene Aram · Thomas Hood · ex The Gem: A Literary Annual 1829
- 108 · The Book of Evidence · John Banville · ex 1989
- 109 · Oliver Twist · Charles Dickens · ex Richard Bentley, 1838
- 110 · Sohrab and Rustum · Matthew Arnold · ex (r)
- 111 · Payment Deferred · C. S. Forester · ex The Bodley Head, 1926
- 112 · Peter Grimes · George Crabbe · ex The Borough by George Crabbe, 1810
- 113 · The Man of God · Leo Tolstoy · ex (r)
- 115 · Caleb Williams · William Godwin · ex Things As They Are by William Godwin, B. Crosby, 1794
- 119 · 5. “To Stop Her Crying”: Escaping the Consequences
- 121 · Innocent Blood · P. D. James · ex Faber and Faber, 1980
- 123 · Dead Certainties · Simon Schama · ex 1992
- 124 · Telling · Elizabeth Bowen · ex The Black Cap ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1927
- 126 · Judges IV · [uncredited] · ex from The Bible (r)
- 126 · The Secret History · Donna Tartt · ex 1992
- 129 · A Demon in My View · Ruth Rendell · ex Hutchinson, May 1976
- 130 · Crime and Punishment · Fyodor Dostoevsky · ex (r)
- 130 · My Last Duchess · Robert Browning · ex Dramatic Lyrics by Robert Browning, Edward Moxon, 1842, as “Italy”
- 132 · The Picture of Dorian Gray [Dorian Gray] · Oscar Wilde · ex Ward, Lock & Co., 1891
- 133 · Honolulu · W. Somerset Maugham · ex Everybody’s October 1921
- 134 · The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Edward Gibbon · ex 1776
- 135 · Dr. Glas · Hjalmar Söderberg; translated by Paul Britten Austin · ex 1905
- 138 · Daniel Deronda · George Eliot · ex William Blackwood & Sons, 1876
- 140 · Sara Thornton, The Story of a Woman Who Killed · Jennifer Nadel · ex 1993
- 141 · The Changeling · Thomas Middleton & William Rowley · ex Humphrey Moseley, 1653
- 145 · 6. “For Love and Not for Hate”: Killing from Altruism or Duty
- 147 · The Physician’s Tale · Geoffrey Chaucer · ex The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer, William Caxton, 1478
- 148 · The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point · Elizabeth Barrett Browning · ex 1850
- 150 · Beloved · Toni Morrison · ex Knopf, September 1987
- 151 · The Salt of the Earth · Rebecca West · ex Woman’s Home Companion March 1934 (+1)
- 153 · Tess of the d’Urbervilles · Thomas Hardy · ex James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1891
- 154 · They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? · Horace McKoy · ex 1935
- 156 · Citizens · Simon Schama · ex 1994
- 157 · The Judge and His Hangman · Friedrich Dürrenmatt; translated by Cyrus Brooks · ex Herbert Jenkins, 1954
translated from the German (Der Richter und sein Henker, 1952).
- 159 · Murder in the Cathedral · T. S. Eliot · ex Faber and Faber, 1935
- 164 · A Soldier Recalls What Killing a Man in War Meant to Him · Denys L. Jones · pm (r)
- 165 · The Face of the Third Reich · Joachim C. Fest; translated by Michael Bullock · ex 1963
- 167 · Judith XXII · [uncredited] · ex from The Bible (r)
- 169 · 7. “A Field of Evil Forces”: The Psychopath No One Understands
- 171 · Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son · Gordon Burn · ex 1985
- 173 · The Bad Seed · William March · ex 1954
- 175 · The Mainspring of Murder · Philip Lindsay · ex 1958
- 177 · A Contribution to the Psychogenesis of Maniac-Depressive States · Melanie Klein · ex 1935
- 178 · Porphyria’s Lover · Robert Browning · pm Monthly Repository January 1836, as “Porphyria”
- 180 · The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner · James Hogg · ex 1824
- 181 · The Talented Mr. Ripley · Patricia Highsmith · ex Cresset Press, November 1955
- 183 · Beyond Belief · Emlyn Williams · ex 1967
- 185 · 10 Rillington Place · Ludovic Kennedy · ex 1971
- 186 · Killer Department · Robert Cullen · ex 1993
- 187 · Psychopath · Carol Ann Duffy · pm 1987
- 190 · How We Die · Sherwin B. Nuland · ex 1993
- 191 · Brighton Rock · Graham Greene · ex Heinemann, 1938
- 192 · The Executioner’s Song · Norman Mailer · ex Little, Brown, 1979
- 194 · Shot in the Heart · Mikal Gilmore · ex 1994
- 195 · The Death Shift · Peter Elkind · ex 1983
- 197 · Murder on Ward Four · Nick Davies · ex 1993
- 199 · The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · Robert Louis Stevenson · ex Longmans, Green, January 5 1886
- 200 · Killing for Company · Brian Masters · ex 1985
- 205 · 8. “The Ones Who Had to Pay”: Murder for Murder’s Sake
- 207 · Life After Life · Tony Parker · ex Secker & Warburg, 1990
- 209 · In Cold Blood · Truman Capote · ex Random House, January 1966
- 210 · Rope · Patrick Hamilton · ex 1929
- 212 · The Vatican Cellars · André Gide; translated by D. Bussy · ex Cassell, 1952
translated from the French (Les Caves du Vatican, Gallimard; Paris, 1950).
- 214 · “A Staffordshire Murderer” · James Fenton · pm 1982
- 218 · The Outsider · Albert Camus; translated by Joseph Laredo · ex 1942
- 221 · Gilles de Rais · Sidney Keyes · pm 1945
- 223 · A Philosophical Investigation · Philip Kerr · ex 1992
- 225 · The Big Sleep · Raymond Chandler · ex Knopf, 1939
- 226 · The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan · Jorge Luís Borges; translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni · ss Intellectual Digest
translated from the Spanish (“El asesino desinteresado Bill Harrigan”, Historia universal de la infamia, Editorial Tor, 1935).
- 227 · The Lonesome Vigilante · John Steinbeck · ex Esquire October 1936
- 228 · A Fratricide · Franz Kafka; translated by Willa Muir & Edwin Muir · ex The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka, tr. Willa & Edwin Muir, Schocken, 1948
translated from the German (“Ein Brudermord”, 1917).
- 229 · The Psychograph · Dennis Nilsen · ex (r)
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