THE CASE OF MARY BELL

Sereny (Gitta)

ISBN 10: 0099091909 / ISBN 13: 9780099091905

Editore: Arrow, 1974

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Paperback. In December 1968, two girls - Mary Bell, eleven and Norma Bell, thirteen (neighbours but not related) - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle accused of strangling, within a 6 week period, Martin Brown, 4-yrs. old and Brian Howe, 3-yrs. Norma was acquitted. Mary Bell, the younger but infinitely more sophisticated and cooler of the two, was found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder becaue of "diminished responsibility" and was sentenced to "Detention" for life. Step by step, the extraordinary murders, the events surrounding them, the alternately bizarre and nonchalant behaviour of the two girls, their brazen offers to help the distraught families of the dead boys, the police work that led to their apprehension, and the trial itself are grippingly re-created in this rare study of the wanton murder of child by child. With Postscript. 288pp. p/back. Lightly browned pp. o/w Vg+ with no creasing to covers. Codice articolo 16540

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Titolo: THE CASE OF MARY BELL

Casa editrice: Arrow

Data di pubblicazione: 1974

Legatura: Softcover / Paperback

Condizione: Very Good

Edizione: First edition.

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Gitta Sereny is of Hungarian-Austrian extraction and is trilingual in English, French and German. During the Second World War she became a social worker, caring for war-damaged children in France. She gave hundreds of lectures in schools and colleges in America and, when the war ended, she worked as a Child Welfare Officer in UNRRA displaced persons' camps in Germany. In 1949 she married the American Vogue photographer Don Honeyman and settled in London, where they brought up a son and a daughter and where she began her career as a journalist.

Her journalistic work was of great variety but focussed particularly on the Third Reich and troubled children. She wrote mainly for the Daily Telegraph Magazine, the Sunday Times, The Times, the Independent and the Independent on Sunday Review. She also contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines around the world.

Her books include: The Medallion, a novel; The Invisible Children, on child prostitution; Into That Darkness; and a biographical examination of Albert Speer. Gitta Sereny died in June 2012.