A 1001 Midnights Review: JOSIAH E. GREENE – Madmen Die Alone.

A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Bill Pronzini JOSIAH E. GREENE – Madmen Die Alone. Morrow, hardcover, 1938. Joseph Parisi, a homicidal inmate at the Exeter Hospital insane asylum, turns up missing one night. Circumstances are such that it is unlikely he managed to escape on his own; and it appears the only person who could have freed him is brilliant research psychiatrist Dr. Hubert Sylvester. But then Sylvester is found on the premises, brutally stabbed to death. Captain Louis Prescott of the local police is called in to investigate, and finds himself confronted with a maze of conflicting relationships among the hospital’s employees. not to mention attitudes and behavior that make him wonder if perhaps some of the keepers aren’t just as insane as their charges. A second murder, of a shady Italian restaurant owner named Luigi Toscarello, intensifies the hunt for Parisi; it also implicates Parisi’s family, thereby opening up a whole new can of worms for Prescott to sift through. Did Parisi…