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The Mad Sculptor
Hardback
Main Details
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The Mad Sculptor
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Harold Schechter
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:304 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 145 |
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| Category/Genre | True Crime |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781781851364
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| Classifications | Dewey:364.1523092 |
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| Illustrations |
8 pages b&w photos
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Head of Zeus
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| Imprint |
Head of Zeus
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| Publication Date |
27 February 2014 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
An unputdownable true crime story set in the pulp-fiction obsessed world of 1930s America. On Easter Sunday 1937, Bob Irwin - a handsome, failing sculptor with a history of depression and psychopathic episodes - commited a grisly triple murder. Creeping back to the flat of his ex-landlady in a swish New York borough, Irwin killed her, her lodger, and her stunning daughter Ronnie with an ice-pick, an apparently motiveless homicide that would shock the entire country. Firmly in 'you couldn't make it up' territory, and crafted like a Chandler novel, THE MAD SCULPTOR thrillingly relates Irwin's crime, flight, and capture, his trial and its aftermath, whilst painting a warts-and-all portrait of 1930s America.
Author Biography
Harold Schechter is a professor of American literature. He is the co-author of THE A TO Z ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SERIAL KILLERS. He is also the author of a series of acclaimed historical novels featuring Edgar Allan Poe.
Reviews'A rich historical tapestry [with] a novelistic sense of character, pacing and suspense.' Publishers Weekly. 'Top-drawer true-crime.' Booklist. 'Reads like fiction but it's chillingly real.' The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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