Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem (Inbunden)
avKurt Brown, Harold Schechter
ISBN: 9780307700933 - UTGIVEN: 2011-10
The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers (Häftad)
avHarold Schechter
ISBN: 9780345465665 - UTGIVEN: 200312
Psycho USA (Häftad)
avHarold Schechter
ISBN: 9780345524478 - UTGIVEN: 201209AMERICA'S MOST COLD-BLOODED
In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity psych[...]
The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder That Shook the Nation (Inbunden)
avHarold Schechter
ISBN: 9780544114319 - UTGIVEN: 2014-02Beekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930s: "SKYSCRAPER SLAYER," "BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB" read the headlines. On Easter Sunday in 1937, the discovery of a grisly triple homicide at Beekman Place would rock the [...]
Fiend: The Shocking True Story of Americas Youngest Serial Killer (Häftad)
avHarold Schechter
ISBN: 9780671014483 - UTGIVEN: 200010A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF.
When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend[...]
Deranged (Häftad)
avHarold Schechter
ISBN: 9780671025458 - UTGIVEN: 1998-10LURED FROM THE SAFETY OF HOME -- INTO THE JAWS OF HELL "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" ("The Boston Book Review"), Harold Schechter shatters the myth that violent crime is a modern phenomenon -- with this seamless true account of unvarnished horror from the ear[...]
Deviant (Häftad)
avHarold Schechter
ISBN: 9780671025465 - UTGIVEN: 199902Known for meticulously researched and brilliantly detailed accounts of horrific true crime legends, Harold Schechter takes readers inside the very heart and mind of true evil. Here is the grisly truth of Ed Gein, the killer whose fiendish fantasies inspired Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' - the mild man[...]
Bestial (Pocket)
avHarold Schechter
ISBN: 9780671732189 - UTGIVEN: 199905Harold Schechter, who delivers "must reading for true crime buffs" (Ann Rule), unravels one of the most gruesome and historically significant cases of American serial murder in Bestial. Violent crime was on the rise in the Jazz Age, and gangland carnage made flashy headlines. But few could conceive [...]
The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (Häftad)
avHarold Schechter, David Everitt
ISBN: 9781416521747 - UTGIVEN: 200607A revised edition is comprised of hundreds of entries on serial murderers and their crimes, offering insight into the phenomenon of serial killing while sharing a wealth of well-publicized and lesser-known details. Original. 25,000 first printing.[...]
Depraved (Pocket)
avHarold Schechter
ISBN: 9781439124055 - UTGIVEN: 200808The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's "Depraved" tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of the Chicago World's Fair. "Destined to be a true crime classic" (Flint Journal, MI), this authoritat[...]
Fatal (Häftad)
avHarold Schechter
ISBN: 9781439182642 - UTGIVEN: 200908In an era that produced some of the most vicious female sociopaths in American history, Jane Toppan would become the most notorious of them all.AN ANGEL OF MERCY In 1891, Jane Toppan, a proper New England matron, embarked on a profession as a private-duty nurse. Selfless and good-natured, she beguil[...]
The Mad Sculptor (Inbunden)
avHarold Schechter
ISBN: 9781781851364 - UTGIVEN: 2014-02An 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[...]
The Mad Sculptor (Storpocket)
avHarold Schechter
ISBN: 9781781853078 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08An 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 swis[...]
The Mad Sculptor (Häftad)
avHarold Schechter
ISBN: 9781781854495 - UTGIVEN: 2014-02On 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 [...]
