Harold Schechter- The Mad Sculptor

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(USED-Good Cond)- 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 h istory of depression and psychopathic episodes - committed a grisly triple murder. Creeping back to the flat of his ex-landlady, Mary Gedeon, in a swish New York borough, Irwin killed Mrs Gedeon, her lodger, and her stunning daughter Ronnie with an icepick, Crafted like a Chandler novel, The Mad Sculptorthrillingly relates Irwin's crime, flight and capture, his trial and its aftermath, whilst painting a warts-and-all portrait of 1930s America. PRAISE FOR HAROLD SCHECHTER 'Reads like fiction but it's chillingly real.' The Philadelphia Inquirer 'Top-drawer true-crime.' Booklist Show more