Paul's Case: The Kingston LettersWith two of North America's most notorious serial killer / sex slayers as its focus, Lynn Crosbie's novel, Paul's Case, dissects and pathologizes the horrific world of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. In the true-crime tradition of Norman Mailer and a host of others, this book is a remarkable work of theoretical fiction that sensitively, imaginatively, and systematically analyses the abduction and murder of Bernardo and Homolka's innocent victims while exploring, in startlingly graphic detail, the cultural effects of the shocking revelations and controversy surrounding the capture, trial, testimony, videotape evidence, and incarceration of the almost unthinkable monstrous pair. This is compelling, moving, impossible work: a book which will shock, terrify, and anger you: a book which will break your heart and change you. You will never forget Paul's Case. |
Contents
1 Fear | 13 |
2 Blond Van in a Beige Camaro | 27 |
3 At the Courthouse Last July | 35 |
4 The Drugs that Killed Tammy | 39 |
5 By Any Other Name | 42 |
6 Jason Lives | 44 |
7 The Night of the Iguana | 50 |
8 Pornography | 54 |
29 The Little Girls Understand | 109 |
30 The Revenger | 111 |
31 Algebra | 114 |
32 Found Poem | 116 |
33 Tripbook | 117 |
34 Whoso List to Hunt | 119 |
35 The Interior | 122 |
36 Therapy | 123 |
9 The Scarborough Rapist | 56 |
10 Tales from the Crypt | 61 |
11 Mahaffy | 62 |
12 The Green Knight | 67 |
13 Sex Trial | 72 |
14 The Journalist the Murderer | 77 |
15 Pretty Thoughts | 79 |
16 Three Killers | 80 |
17 A Poetics | 82 |
18 Miracle of the Rose | 85 |
19 Two Boy Scouts | 87 |
20 Karlas SuicideDesire | 89 |
21 Kristen | 93 |
22 Lovebirds | 95 |
23 Abduction | 97 |
24 The Grand Illusion | 99 |
25 John Rosen | 103 |
26 Pauls Current Affair | 104 |
27 Surveillance | 106 |
28 The WormPicker | 108 |
37 SuckerPunch | 127 |
38 The Avenger | 129 |
39 A Hell of a Woman | 132 |
40 Asslicker | 134 |
41 The Battered Wife | 135 |
42 My Little Sister | 136 |
43 Scream | 140 |
44 Argument | 141 |
45 En Attendant Line | 143 |
46 Television | 148 |
47 Hockey | 154 |
48 Snuff | 156 |
49 Necromancy | 161 |
50 List Poem | 162 |
51 Revelation | 163 |
52 The Rest is Silence | 164 |
LegendAppendix | 167 |
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Acknowledgements | 185 |
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