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Victor MacClure. She Stands Accused
She Stands Accused
Table of Contents
I. — INTRODUCTORY
II. — A FAIR NECK FOR THE MAIDEN
III: — THE COUNTESS AND THE COZENER
IV: — A MODEL FOR MR HOGARTH
V: — ALMOST A LADY[27]
VI: — ARSENIC A LA BRETONNE
VII: — THE MERRY WIDOWS
INDEX
Footnote
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Victor MacClure
Published by Good Press, 2021
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But, sordid or not, crime has its human interest. Its practitioners are still part of life, human beings, different from law-abiding humanity by God-alone-knows-what freak of heredity or kink in brain convolution. I will not ask the reader, as an excuse for my book, to view the criminal with the thought attributed to John Knox:
"There, but for the Grace of God, goes ——" Because the phrase might as well be used in contemplation of John D. Rockefeller or Augustus John or Charlie Chaplin or a man with a wooden leg. I do not ask that you should pity these women with whom I have to deal, still less that you should contemn them. Something between the two will serve. I write the book because I am interested in crime myself, and in the hope that you'll like the reading as much as I like the writing of it.
