Thursday, August 09, 2007

Fact or Fiction?

Crime author charged with murder after the police read his perfect plot - Times Online: "An author leafing through a newspaper comes across tantalising details of a murder so grisly that he becomes obsessed, and imagines the events into a novel. Or a murderer, so self-satisfied with the brilliance of his perfect crime, pens an account to pass off as fiction and enshrine it in literary history.

Where reality ends and fiction begins in the stomach-turning novel Amok is the central task before the jury in Poland’s trial of the decade. Four years after he published his bloody bestseller, Krystian Bala has found himself on trial for the same torture and murder that he detailed in his novel."

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, facinating, Bill! Some time ago I saw an investigative report on Court TV about a fireman who investigated major fires. He was well respected for solving arson cases. He wrote a book about a fire in a major store and used as fictional characters a grandmother and her little grandson who were trapped in the fire and killed.

Turns out they think he actually followed a woman and her grandson in a store, set the fire that killed them, then coldly used that converstion in his book. VERY sick. He went to jail for murder.

Hope you will post the outcome of this case.

Unknown said...

If the outcome catches my attention, I'll post it for sure. Should be interesting whichever way it goes.

Cap'n Bob said...

If Dan Rhodes goes to an orgy, I'll be beside myself with angst.

Unknown said...

Me, too.

Cap'n Bob said...

Hey, I didn't post that comment about Dan Rhodes and the orgy. Something wicked is happening here.You'd better check it out.

Unknown said...

Someone's using your name? For shame!