Also titled Lingard. Fictional portrait of a mass-murderer by the distinguished author of The Outsider. This novel is the uninhibited portrait in depth of a mass rapist & murderer, Arthur James Lingard. He is serving the last years of an 8 year sentence for 3nd degree murder when prison authorities note that he is in a depression & send the prison psychiatrist to see him. Dr. Kahn soon has reason to suspect that his patient is a dangerous psychopath, & undertakes a perilous, & as it develops, sensational investigation of Lingard's life.—It makes Truman Capote's book, In Cold Blood, look bland.
