Richard Harris (‘This Sporting Life’, ‘Gladiator’) was in his pomp, and a hit on the West End and Broadway in ‘Camelot’ at around this time. Anthony Hopkins (‘The Remains of the Day’, ‘The Silence of ...

“The Killer Inside Me,” published in 1952, is his best-known novel. Its narrator is Lou Ford, a 29-year-old Texas sheriff who pretends to be a bland and boring rube but ends up committing every murder ...