Murder Madness is a science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 novel by author Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history...

. It was first published in book form in 1931

1931 in literature

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

Plot introduction

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

Publication history

• 1930, USA, Astounding, Pub date May 1931, Magazine serialization in 4 parts
• 1931, USA, Brewer and Warren , Pub date 1931, Hardback
• 1949, USA, Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.
  Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.
  Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., or FPCI, was a science fiction and fantasy small press specialty publishing company established in 1946. It was the fourth small press company founded by William L...
  
  , Pub date 1949, Hardback