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(More customer reviews)The author, Charles F. Adams, credits his sources. But most of the stories found in this book were included in either San Francisco Murders, which was published in 1947 and edited by Joseph Henry Jackson, and Great Crimes of San Francisco, published in 1974 and edited by Dean W. Dickensheet. Adams has added very little to the tales he reiterates from these two books, and the originals were much more well written. There are innumerable typographical errors in this work, including instances in which the murderers' names are spelled in two different ways. Also, a citation to Dickensheet's volume says it was published in 1947 instead of 1974. The above-mentioned books are readily available from online booksellers, and are far more detailed and engaging. Adams' work does have one advantage: it includes some fuzzy half-tone photographs of the murderers and their victims, whereas the earlier works were unillustrated. Read the older books, then use this one, if need be, to look at the pictures.
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