Murder Most Foul

About the Book

Murder Most Foul is a literary study aimed at a general audience that links and compares several great works of world literature to themes of violence and suffering. Included are Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, and several works of the great Greek tragedians—Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The gods of Greek mythology, led by the great god Zeus, were instrumental in causing the pain and strife. The author makes the point that death and destruction, war and violence assert themselves everywhere in great works, and thus draws a conclusion that it is part and parcel of existence in all eras of mankind. The title is taken from Hamlet, words spoken to Hamlet by the ghost of his murdered father.

About the Author

Arelo Sederberg, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota has a BA in English Literature from California State University at Los Angeles and has taught creative writing at USC and journalism at West Los Angels City College. He has been a newspaper editor and reporter, and was a public relations executive for Howard Hughes. He is the author of twelve published books, ten of which are novels.