Exploding Cows, Designer Jeans, and Church Bells: The Crime Writer’s Search for Unusual Murder Weapons
By John Keyse-Walker
September 12, 2017Guns, knives, strangulation—it’s all so “been there, done that.” Readers are bored with shotgun blasts, lukewarm about machetes, blasé about blows to the base of the skull. They want blood and guts with a sick twist, a cozy corpse with a cerebral dose of toxin, or remains that got that way in some inexplicable manner.…