''Murder Madness'' is a

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novel by American writer

Murray Leinster Murray Leinster () was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of List of science fiction authors, science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 ...

. It was first published in book form in

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

by Brewer and Warren. It was Leinster's first book. The novel was originally serialized in four parts in the magazine '' Astounding SF'' beginning in May 1930.

Plot introduction

The novel concerns a tyrant who attempts to control civilization by using a madness-inducing drug.

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