Dummy
Dummy
ISBN: 9780316845106
定价: 70.00
内容简介
This is neither a plea for sympathy for Donald Lang nor
a justification of him. He is in his middle twenties as this
is written and has spent one-fourth of his life behind bars.
He has been accused of two murders and suspected of in-
volvement in others.
"I don t know about The Dummy," a Chicago detec-
tive said during the research for this book, "but every time
he goes through a neighborhood we find a dead broad."
He is a suspect personality.
But Donald Lang is also deaf, mute, illiterate, probably
ineducable now, possibly psychotic and perhaps brain-
damaged by disease and accident in childhood. He is also
an American black, which is considered an infirmity and
a defect by a major segment of the community.
He is nothing and nobody; he will never be anything or
anybody. That may be the
about.
reason he is worth thinking
Given the intelligence, resourcefulness, generosity and
concern of his fellow men, one for the other, Donald
Lang might have beem
That isthe tragedy.