Vol. 6, No. 3: Fall 2000

No Spark of Malice: The Murder of Martin Begnaud by William Arceneaux; Whisper to the Black Candle: Voodoo, Murder, and the Case of Anjette Lyles by Jaclyn Weldon White (Review)

by Frank G. Queen

Louisiana State University Press, 1999; Mercer University Press, 1999

Whoever said crime doesn’t pay hasn’t been in a bookstore lately. By the pink you know you’re in the Barbie section at Toys R Us and by the black and red covers you know you’re in the bookstore crime section. But Lord, who reads this stuff?

Well—right now, I do. Crime is my life. I’m a lawyer. (All right, I’m a real estate lawyer—do we don’t use guns, OK?)

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