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Serial criminality is an appropriate subject for the final chapter of this book. If there are parallels to be drawn between the critic and the detective, there are others that link the writer and the serial criminal. Both are often the subjects of an obsession that totally dominates and determines their lives. Writing, like serial criminality, is posited upon an unending sequence of rehearsal and ‘improvement’.
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Cited Wayne Morrison, Theoretical Criminology: From Modernity to Post-modernism ( London: Cavendish Publishing, 1995 ), pp. 156–57.
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Peach, L. (2006). Writing the Serial and Callous Killer into (Post) Modernity. In: Masquerade, Crime and Fiction. Crime Files Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625402_7
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