On Iniquity

were written as soon as possible after the trial. Both of them give faithful accounts of the proceedings which the authors attended and substantially accurate pictures of the murderers. Unfortutunately, neither of them makes any very valuable contribution to our knowledge. Miss Hansford Johnson is chiefly concerned with the problem of censorship. Did the fact that Brady and Hindley could buy cheap copies of sadistic-pornographic books have any decisive influence on their atrocious behaviour? She thinks it may have done. I doubt if she has proved her case. It is conceivably possible that sadism may have a special addictive quality, something like that of heroin