The mad sculptor : the maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation
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Published
Boston : New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
364.1523 SCHEC
1 available
364.1523 SCHEC
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Published
Boston : New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xiv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-341) and index.
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"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"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Schechter, H. (2014). The mad sculptor: the maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation . New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Schechter, Harold. 2014. The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder That Shook the Nation. New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Schechter, Harold. The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder That Shook the Nation New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Schechter, Harold. The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder That Shook the Nation New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
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