Paperback: Strangled, stabbed, drowned, bludgeoned, poisoned and dismembered - variously killed, but not by chance. This volume presents the chilling true accounts of some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Singapore's short history, crimes of a most personal, most irrevocable kind: murder.
Why do people commit murder? It's a question as old as the crime itself, and even if we had the answer under our very noses, it's likely one we cannot universally accept.
Still, Singapore is among the safest places on earth to live as far as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is concerned: along with Japan, Singapore has around 0.5 cases of "intentional homicide" per 100 000 population.
Malaysia and Thailand stand at 2.3 and 5.3 respectively; the UK and Australia each have 1.2; while the most murderous state, Honduras, tops the list with 82.
About the author: Yeo Suan Futt is a Singaporean magazine journalist with experience in a broad range of subject matter, from automobiles, technology, and timepieces to electronic gaming and cuisine. Murder Most Foul is his first book published in May 2013. His latest book, Wild Women Do: Female killers, tricksters, and crooks in Singapore was published a month later, in June 2013.
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