A crime writer in Toronto is retiring after 34 years on the beat. His name is Max Haines. He is the author of over 2,500 articles and 27 books! Some of the titles include: True Crime Stories, Doctors Who Kill, Murders Strange But True, Bothersome Bodies, Murder Most Foul, Crime Flashback, and others. I can’t say I have heard of him, but he seems like the Ann Rule of Canada, writing true crime collections for mass consumption.
There is an article about his very interesting career in the Toronto Sun titled “After 34 years of columns and 27 books, ‘Mr. Murder’ Max Haines has decided it’s time to stop killing himself”—pretty good hook, wouldn’t you say?
What’s this got to do with Lizzie Borden, you ask? Well, according to the article, the very first piece that Mr. Haines wrote was on Lizzie! I think I’ll have to read some of his work now that I found out about him!
