Vintage Crime

Some of these true crime cases once filled the pages of newspapers, while others were hidden from public view. Who was the “murderer of maids,” Hugo Schenk, and what was he like, this man with literary ambitions? Who was the greatest fraudster of the First Czechoslovak Republic? Were those convicted in the farmhouse murder case actually guilty, or was it a miscarriage of justice? How did a perpetrator almost evade punishment for a serious crime by faking a mental disorder?

As in his previous books on crime, the author frames and illustrates the presented cases with the social context of the time, as well as with criminology and criminal law theory.