Williams is interested in the psychopathology of the crime-there is every evidence from his reading of Justine to his pornographic pictures to his homosexual inclinations that Ian was kinky-even if in the words of his friend he was certainly ''queerer than just queer.'' Whatever the outcome of the book (it does have a Guild selection) it is an imposing and in many ways overwhelming ''Chronicle of Murder and its Detection. After the latter's ''head squelching with blood'' was found in Ian's rooms, a doodled name in a notebook led the police eventually to the two earlier victims buried on the moors. As for the case itself, it couldn't be more 'orrible-in which Ian Stewart Brady ''borrn in Rottenrow'' and in illegitimacy, along with his girl, Myra Hindley, savaged to death a boy of twelve, a girl of ten, and finally a boy of 17.

It is in fact a cinematic projection, with jerky, jumpy shifts of focus, and this, in conjunction with the summat difficult speech, may well impede the average American. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of. His 1980 novel 'Headlong' was adapted by David S. Williams' staggering, and in many ways stunning, reconstruction takes place against a percussive soundtrack of what is coming across the radio-the ''goggle box''-with snatches of dialogue in the bluddy but ''ferr real'' idiom of this seamy underside of industrial England. Emlyn Williams wrote two memoirs, 'George, An Early Autobiography' (1961), and 'Emlyn: An Early Autography, 1927-1935' (1974), as well as a 1967 non-fiction account of the Moors Murders entitled 'Beyond Belief'. Although the reader (with a watchful eye for quotation marks) can determine what is historical, or taken from the records, versus what has been dubbed in, it requires strict attention. imaginative understanding.'' This accounts not only for the intention but the technique applied here in a documentary montage of the three child murders which took place in Manchester, England.

FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION 1968 RANDOM HOUSE. the preface here) had been looking for an authentic case which would combine a ''dual accuracy of history and. Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder & Its Detection by Emlyn Williams. Ever since Night Must Fall Emlyn Williams (cf.

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