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 vel, 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Head of Zeus
ISBN-10
1781851360
ISBN-13
9781781851364
eBay Product ID (ePID)
191219784
Product Key Features
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Topic
True Crime
Author
Harold Schechter
Genre
True Crime
Dimensions
Height
228mm
Width
145mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Date of Publication
27/02/2014
Content Note
8 Pages B&W Photos
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
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.
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