The details “grisly”, the people “lunatic”, the results, “magnetic”.

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“ This book would blueprint a far better cinema than the strangler story, so much authentic loneliness, suffering and longing in the artistic temperament does it set forth. And it has all the terror and excitement of a Hitchcock thriller, as, accelerating from the leisurely Max Beerbohm comedy and gusto of the art world, the book gathers pace and pulse in both the eeriness of occult practices, and the inescapable doom of crime and punishment.”