An edition of Cold Kill (1987)

Cold Kill

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Cold Kill
Jack Olsen, Jack Olsen
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An edition of Cold Kill (1987)

Cold Kill

  • 4.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 8 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

Olsen has another winner in his account of the 1984 double murder of Texas lawyer James Campbell and his wife Virginia by their daughter Cindy and her lover, David West. It is a somewhat unusual true-crime study, not because the case was broken by a private detective rather than the police and not because the final disposition of the case is not included, but, rather, because of its searching psychological depiction of the killers. The analysis of the daughter suggests that she was a classic sociopath, a pathological liar incapable of any emotion or thought that did not involve her self-interest, unique in a close and loving family. The lover was far more complex, a weak man, an ex-Marine, who desperately wanted to appear strong, a man chivalrous toward women and uniformly unsuccessful with them. Their story makes for shattering reading.

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Dell
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English

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Cover of: Cold Kill
Cold Kill
November 1, 1988, Dell
in English
Cover of: Cold kill
Cold kill: the true story of a murderous love
1987, Atheneum
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OL7518555M
ISBN 10
0440202124
ISBN 13
9780440202127
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843833
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372174

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April 29, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from amazon.com record