Rome, 1948. Italy reels in the aftermath of World War II. Chaos and depression reign and its fertile ground for a killer to strike. Twenty women are brutally murdered, their throats slit and their faces removed with surgical precision. Then the murders stop as abruptly as they started, and the horri
The nature of evil
β Scribed by M. B. Ahern
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1966
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 547 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0038-1527
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