[Rhodes22-list] For Bill Effros

[Gregg J. MacMillan]

   At 8:21 PM -0700 9/28/06, L. Sailor wrote:

     Try reading these  links and see how fictional

     that character is.

   Elle--

   Just curious...are we talking about the same guy?

   --Gregg

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   More diabolical than Sherlock Holmes's arch nemesis Dr. Moriarty and
   more lethal than Jaws, Hannibal Lecter, the serial murderer created by
   author Thomas Harris, has captured the public's fascination like no
   other fictional character in recent years.   Dr. Hannibal "the
   Cannibal" Lecter first appeared as a minor but important character in
   Harris's novel Red Dragon.  In the next book, The Silence of the
   Lambs, Lecter came into his own, and the movie version highlighted the
   killer's complex relationship with FBI agent-in-training Clarice
   Starling.  In these two novels, Lecter, in his indirect, Cheshire-Cat
   way, advises the FBI as they hunt for headline-making serial killers
   who are on the loose and very active.  He himself is not the target of
   law enforcement's full-court press until Hannibal, the third book in
   this series.  In Hannibal, Lecter is at large and up to his old
   tricks.  His face altered by plastic surgery, he has taken a new
   identity and moved to Rome, an environment that better suits his
   cultivated tastes.  Clarice Starling, now a full-fledged special
   agent, picks up his trail, hoping to recapture the wily psychoanalyst
   with a taste for human flesh. But who is Hannibal Lecter?  What
   real-life models did Harris use in creating him?  How much of him is
   fiction and how much is based on fact?  Is he purely a literary
   invention, or could someone like him actually be walking the streets
   right now?

   (more at)

   http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/lecter/1.html