Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (H/B)

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs Were Charged As Accessories to Murder. One of Their Friends, Lucien Carr, Had Stabbed Another, David Kammerrer, Whose Sexual Advances He'd Seemingly Grown Tired of Rejecting. Carr, Still in Bloodstained Clothes, Had Come to Each of Them and Confessed; Kerouac Helped Him Get Rid of the Weapon - Neither Told the Police. for This Failing They Were Arrested. Months Later the Two Writers - Unpublished at the Time - Collaborated on "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks", a Fictionalized Account of the Summer of the Killing. They Wrote Alternating Chapters - Burroughs Writing As Sometime Bartender and Workaday Detective Will Dennison, Kerouac As Mike Ryko, an Irish Merchant Seaman.From This Intensely Personal Material They Made a Hard-Boiled Account of a Group of Friends Moving Through Each Other's Apartments, Killing Time Drinking, Necking, Talking and Taking Drugs, and Haphazardly Drifting Towards a Bloody Crime - Flabby, Likeable Ramsey A