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020 _a0544114310 (hardback)
020 _a9780544114319 (hardback)
035 _a(OCoLC)827841389
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043 _an-us-ny
049 _aNFGA
092 _a364.1523
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100 1 _aSchechter, Harold.
_9213902
245 1 4 _aThe mad sculptor :
_bthe maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation /
_cHarold Schechter.
264 1 _aBoston :
_bNew Harvest,
_c2014.
300 _axiv, 352 pages, [8] pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aBeekman Place -- Fenelon -- The shadow of madness -- The mad sculptor -- The defender.
520 _a"Beekman Place, one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, hasn't always been home to the rich. In the 1930s, when bluebloods like the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers began to build luxury towers, poor European immigrants lived in filthy slums among the riverside factories and abbatoirs. It was in this setting that a young man committed a grisly triple-murder on Easter Sunday, 1937. The details of the case were so sensational that one might think it had been cooked up in a tabloid editor's overheated imagination. The charismatic perpetrator, Robert Irwin, was a promising young sculptor, but he was also deeply disturbed. An obsession with Veronica Gedeon, a stunning photographer's model, would inspire him to murder. Harold Schechter masterfully tells the story of the "Mad Sculptor" case, one of the most engrossing American crime dramas of the twentieth century--evoking an atmosphere and a madness that will have readers glued to their chairs"--
_cProvided by publisher.
600 1 0 _aIrwin, Robert,
_d1907-1975.
_9244606
650 0 _aSerial murderers
_zNew York (State)
_zNew York.
_9244607
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