Jonathan Goodman, crime writer and novelist, was born on January 17, 1931. He died on January 10, 2008, aged 76. He had a self-inflated reputation as a writer of true crime in 1967 with the pretentious and error-laden The Killing of Julia Wallace, in which he claimed to have solved the murder, and he claimed his suspect - Gordon Parry - who was actually dismissed as a suspect immediately after the crime, was the killer of Julia Wallace. Each chapter in The Killing of Julia Wallace was punctuated with an extract from Alice in Wonderland, which added an air of pretentiousness to the book. Goodman, like many other researchers of the time, believed Julia Wallace was in her fifties, when she was in fact 71 years of age and incontinent. The case presented by Goodman in his book on the Wallace murder is now largely dismissed as both inaccurate and implausible by most criminologists.
Works
edit- Instead of Murder (1961)
- Criminal Tendencies (1964)
- Hello Cruel World, Goodbye (1964)
- The Killing of Julia Wallace (1969)
- Posts-mortem: Correspondence of Murder (1971)
- Bloody Versicles: Rhymes of Crime (1971)
- Trial of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley: Moors Case (1973) aka The Moors Murders
- Trial of Ruth Ellis (1974)
- Burning of Evelyn Foster (1977)
- The Last Sentence (1978)
- The Pleasures of Murder: Classic Stories of True Crime (1983)
- The Stabbing of George Harry Storrs (1983)
- The Railway Murders (1984)
- Crippen File (1985)
- The Seaside Murders: Thirteen Classic True Crime Stories (1985)
- Underworld (1985) (with Ian Will)
- Acts of Murder (1986)
- The Christmas Murders (1986)
- Murder in High Places (1987)
- The Slaying of Joseph Bowne Elwell (1987)
- Murder in Low Places (1988)
- The Oscar Wilde File (1988)
- Stabbing of George Henry Storrs (1988)
- The Vintage Car Murders (1988)
- The Country House Murders (1988)
- The Art of Murder: Classic True-crime Stories (1990)
- The Lady Killers: Famous Women Murderers (1990)
- The Medical Murders: Classic True-crime Stories (1991)
- The Supernatural Murders: Classic True-crime Stories (1992)
- Masterpieces of Murder: The Creme De La Crime from the Finest Chronicles of True Murder (1992)
- The Daily Telepraph Murder File: The Startling Facts Behind a Century's Headlines (1993)
- Murder High and Low (1994)
- The Passing of Starr Faithfull (1995)
- The Daily Telegraph Modern Murder File: Crimes That Shook the World (1995)
- The Trail to Washoe (2003)
- Tracks to Murder (2005)
- Murder on Several Occasions (2007)
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http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/jonathan-goodman/
http://www.paperbackswap.com/Jonathan-Goodman/author/
Obituaries http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1575486/Jonathan-Goodman.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3385545.ece http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/mar/26/culture.obituaries
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