Here's a problem I've been working on. US newspapers frequently report cases of men killing their wives, then turning themselves in. Presumably it happens in France, though I don't know. What I do know is that where murder followed by surrender shows up not infrequently in French literature and film (Julien Sorel, Lacenaire, etc.) I have not been able to find a single example in American fiction or films. If this is so there's room for some interesting speculation, but before wasting time on the latter it would be prudent to make sure that my survey of the American scene is accurate.
I would therefore appreciate learning of any work of American imagination in which a murderer doesn't try to escape but instead surrenders to the state.
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