![]() As Radin explains in an Author’s Note, “in each of the cases in this book, a different motive was the cause that led to murder. Nominated for the 1959 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category, it’s a collection of 10 true-crime tales about homicides and the people who commit them. The Deadly Reasons was the book he published just prior to that Borden history. Radin (1909-1966), an American criminologist and journalist whose best-known work is probably Lizzie Borden: The Untold Story (1961). I also knew that The Deadly Reasons was written by Edward D. I knew that the man responsible for the painting that fronts this 1958 Popular Giant paperback edition of The Deadly Reasons was Owen Kampen (1922-1982), a Madison, Wisconsin-born artist and illustrator who once worked as an instructor with the Famous Artists School. I just couldn’t put my finger on the answer. I’ve been holding onto the cover above for months now, trying to recall why that image of a rather well-endowed young brunette looked so darn familiar. The latest installment in Killer Covers’ “haven’t we seen this front someplace before?” series.
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