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The Mad Sculptor Harold Schechter

The Mad Sculptor By Harold Schechter

The Mad Sculptor by Harold Schechter


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Summary

The true story of a failing sculptor who killed three people with an ice-pick, went on the run, sold his story to a newspaper and used the money to hire one of America's most successful criminal lawyers.

The Mad Sculptor Summary

The Mad Sculptor by Harold Schechter

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.

The Mad Sculptor 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 *

About Harold Schechter

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.

Additional information

GOR005779194
9781781851364
1781851360
The Mad Sculptor by Harold Schechter
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20140227
304
N/A
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