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By Richard Firstman and Jamie Talan. 632 pp. New York, Bantam Books, 1997. $24.95. ISBN 0-553-10013-0.

Salisbury. His passion is so ripe it needs must break.

Pembroke. And when it breaks, I fear will issue thence

The foul corruption of a sweet child's death.

(Shakespeare. King John, Act IV, Scene 2, Lines 79–81.)

So starts the 1961 Journal article "Slaughter of the Innocents: A Study of Forty-Six Homicides in Which the Victims Were Children" (L. Adelson. 1961;264:1345–49). This classical theme echoes throughout the accompanying grim editorial, "Murder in the Tower" (1961;264:1368–69). Thirty-seven years later, the same themes of passion, corruption, and the death of sweet children reverberate through the pages of The Death of Innocents: A . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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