Court Report
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Prosecutor: Describe this man.
Defendant: He searches for work. He has a scythe on his back.
Prosecutor: You say he spoke to you?
Defendant: ‘D’you fancy a job?’ I heard him say. Then he asked me where he could get an iron bar. I told him he could find one over by the old dock ferry on some waste ground if he wanted one.
Prosecutor: I suggest that you struck the victim six or seven savage blows with the iron bar.
Defendant: No sir. I did not. I never touched the man.
(At which, from the public gallery, Death smiled.)
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Catherine Eisner believes
passionately in plot-driven suspense fiction, a devotion to literary
craft that draws on studies in psychoanalytical criminology and
psychoactive pharmacology to explore the dark side of motivation, and
ignite plot twists with unexpected outcomes. Within these disciplines
Eisner’s fictions seek to explore variant literary forms derived from
psychotherapy and criminology to trace the traumas of characters in extremis. Compulsive
recurring sub-themes in her narratives examine sibling rivalry,
rivalrous cousinhood, pathological imposture, financial chicanery, and
the effects of non-familial male pheromones on pubescence,
see Eisner’s Sister Morphine (2008)
and Listen Close to Me (2011)
and A Bad Case (2015)
http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/a-bad-case-and-other-adventures-of.html
http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/a-bad-case-and-other-adventures-of.html
