How to Kill: Vol 1-6 [John Minnery]

[How] [To] [Kill]

How to Kill: Vol 1-6

John Minnery

Paladin Press, CO. 1976-1984. 

Vol. 1 - 4th printing, 1979

Vol. 2 - 1st printing, 1977

Vol. 3 - 1st printing, 1979

Vol. 4 - 1st printing, 1979

Vol. 5 - 1st printing, 1980

Vol. 6 - 1st printing, 1984

All in very good to excellent condition, with varying amounts of bleed from the cover onto the text body, general confined to the first few pages of each volume, as is common with the How to Kill series.

Proudly presented are all six volumes of John Minnery's infamous "How to Kill" series. Documenting the many ways of "death by design", these books meticulously, often times hilariously, take us through the many methods of death that Minnery has perfected over the years in his role as "security consultant". Now one way say - does that mean Minnery might just be a psychotic mall cop, doodling ways to kill and maim criminals and vagrants? Possibly. We cannot know. 

The Rube Goldberg quality of many of these methods is hard to ignore. How many times has someone rigged a gun up to shoot the driver through the steering column? Has anyone really been killed by a car battery hooked up to a urinal? Would that even work? The methods are many, the illustrations insane, and the author, dubious at best.

"How to Kill" is a piece of American nihilist folk art that can't be ignored.