The Professor and the Prostitute: And Other True Tales of Murder and Madness

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Ten accounts exploring the psychological forces that drive affluent people to destroy themselves and others focus on a New England professor's obsession with a prostitute, the drug-related deaths of twin gynecologists, and other cases

Genres: True CrimeNonfictionShort Stories

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