title: The Fundamentals of Murder
author:  William F. Love 
description: When the Lord sent Jerry Fanning to New York City to convert sinners, the young Oklahoma fundamentalist had no idea that he'd soon be jailed for strangling three prostitutes and a model on four successive Fridays in Times Square. But Jerry has not been abandoned. Racing to the rescue are two rising stars on the investigative scene--the paraplegic Bishop Regan (more Nero Wolfe than Father Dowling) and his ex-cop assistant, Davey Goldman, "a Jew ( and an atheist)"--introduced in The Chartreuse Clue. Despite occasional lapses in pace and a predictable solution, this ecumenical whodunit by a former Benedictine monk and banker is a brisk, diverting read with a smashing climax. <br />Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  The Love Affair of George Vincent Parker
  
  
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  # The Love Affair of George Vincent Parker
  
  
  ### Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
  
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  The Strand Magazine, 1901
  
  
  
  
  
  [The cases dealt with in this series of studies of criminal
  
  
  psychology are taken from the actual history of crime, though
  
  
  occasionally names have been changed where their retention might cause
  
  
  pain to surviving relatives.]
  
  
  THE student of criminal annals will find upon classifying his cases
  
  
  that the two causes which are the most likely to incite a human being
  
  
  to the crime of murder are the lust of money and the black resentment
  
  
  of a disappointed love. Of these the latter are both rarer and more
  
  
  interesting, for they are subtler in their inception and deeper in
  
  
  their psychology. The mind can find no possible sympat