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The Mad Sculptor

By Harold Schechter

Book information

Publisher
Head of Zeus
Year
2014
ISBN
9781781853085, 1781853088
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3040532 bytes)
Pages
304\0
Time added
2021-04-22 04:26:48

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.

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