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Incendiary the psychiatrist, the mad bomber, and the invention of criminal profiling /

Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall -- for almost two decades, no place was safe from the man who signed his anonymous letters "FP" and left his lethal devices in phone booths, storage lockers, even tucked into the plush seats of movie theaters. His victims were left cruelly...

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Main Author: Cannell, Michael,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Minotaur Books, [2017]
Physical Description: ix, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Metesky, George P., -- 1903-1994.
Brussel, James A. -- (James Arnold), -- 1905-1982.
Finney, Howard.
Berkson, Seymour.
Bombings -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
Criminal behavior, Prediction of -- Case studies.
Criminal psychology -- Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Angel of justice
  • Bomb squad
  • Mr. Think
  • Reverse psychiatry
  • Poplar Street
  • Up from the streets
  • The Paramount
  • "It will be buttoned"
  • "Keep out of this"
  • The publisher
  • The truce
  • The dead files
  • Fair play
  • Interrogation
  • The smiling avenger
  • Mr. Death
  • Matteawan
  • Epilogue.

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