cover image Death Jewish Prin

Death Jewish Prin

Shirley Frondorf. Berkley Publishing Group, $4.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-425-12124-5

In 1982, Phoenix, Ariz., restaurateur Steven Steinberg, who killed his wife by stabbing her 26 times, was acquitted; his legal defense portrayed the victim as an overpowering ``Jewish American Princess,'' whose excesses may have provoked her violent end. ``Frondorf follows the theme that made Elana Steinberg the villain, instead of the victim, of the piece,'' stated PW. (June)