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The Mad Sculptor

The Mad Sculptor

by HaroldSchechter (Author)

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    Hardcover 2014

    $3.40
Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 304
 Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 27 Feb 2014
ISBN 10: 1781851360
ISBN 13: 9781781851364
Book Overview:

An unputdownable true crime story set firmly in the pulp-fiction and cheap detective-novel obsessed world of 1930s America.


Media Reviews
'Reads like fiction but it's chillingly real.' The Philadelphia Inquirer.
'Top-drawer true-crime.' Booklist.
'A rich historical tapestry [with] a novelistic sense of character, pacing and suspense.' Publishers Weekly.
Author Bio

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.