OpinionJournal - Five Best

OpinionJournal - Five Best: "Behind the Plots
A former prison doctor's favorite books on the criminal mind.

BY THEODORE DALRYMPLE"

1. "On Murder" by Thomas De Quincey (Oxford, 2006).

2. "The Adversary" by Emmanuel Carrère (Holt, 2001).

3. "Killing for Company" by Brian Masters (Random House, 1993).
4. "Trial of Herbert Rowse Armstrong" (William Hodge & Co., 1927).
5. "The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot" by Thomas Maeder (Little, Brown, 1980).

Mr. Dalrymple's most recent book is "Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy" (Encounter, 2006).