Crazy graduate turned murderer

Usage examples of maniac.

But any suspicion that Ballenger was contemplating a lawsuit evaporated, and Watson saw that he was dealing, instead, with a maniac.

She would have liked to point out to it in terms of passionate reproach that if he had only kept on turtling instead of parking provocatively in the exact middle of a dirt road she, Lorna Bland, sometimes called Blondie because of the inevitable alliteration, would not now be married to a long-legged, grunting maniac, capable of seeing life only through the lens of a camera.

Particularly after my own romp in the park with a homicidal maniac a year or so ago.

Not--right from our honeymoon--to know I was looking for a homicidal maniac who had killed over a dozen people.

I was looking for a homicidal maniac who had killed over a dozen people.

They became the biological equivalent of suicide bombers, those maniac so-called hydrophobes staggering around at the morning-curfew change.

Sammy killing Sammy was how I figured it, because the only person capable of kevorking a drugged mesomorphic maniac like Crespo would be another drugged mesomorphic maniac.

Therefore, the Metaverse is wide open and undefended, like airports in the days before bombs and metal detectors, like elementary schools in the days before maniacs with assault rifles.

My pulse jumped as I remembered the carbon monoxide poisoning and the maniac who was trying to kill me, and the terror of the footsteps approaching zapped through me like an electrical shock.

For that moment, even Monteith himself, in his maniac mood, felt dimly aware of that mysterious restraining power all the rest who knew him had so often felt in their dealings with the Alien.

Michael Ostrog, a Russian doctor, and a convict, who was subsequently detained in a lunatic asylum as a homicidal maniac.

He looks at Mister Speedhand, and Pitman clinically studying him in the mirror, and he wonders if he should have taken his chance with the religious maniacs.

But if rage or desire implied freedom we must allow freedom to animals, infants, maniacs, the distraught, the victims of malpractice producing incontrollable delusions.

The police, satisfied that they had shattered a dangerous gang of maniacs and man-smugglers, turned over to the Federal authorities the unconvicted Kurds, who befure their deportation were conclusively found to belong to the Yezidi clan of devil-worshippers.

Looking up the slope past bushy trees that dotted the rough lawn, The Shadow saw the dim lights of Beaverwood and wondered how many of its occupants might prove to be homicidal maniacs.