Pickled Crime
"TO read the details of a crime in the ‘daily paper or to attend a trial in person lays one open to a charge of morbid curiosity, whereas to listen to a series of Famous Trials is in the acceptable category of intellectual pursuit. Such is the difference between viewing human nature in the raw and having it served up after it has been duly salted down in legal brine. To most of us pickled crime is much tastier. And quite the most fascinating series I have so far heard is Edgar Lustgarten’s Prisoner at the Bar. These have had a certain amount of the legal brine washed off them, though without ruining the flavour. Quite the contrary -jin fact, there have been moments when I have felt that Lustgarten’s talent for dramatisation has brought his characters too close for comfort, though not for excitement. The vividness of the presentation abets our natural appetite for sensation while remaining this side of good taste.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 11
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165Pickled Crime New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 11
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