Harold Schechter: Depraved
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- Materiaali: Pokkari
- Kustantaja: Gallery Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781439124055
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The 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 authoritative account chronicles the methods and madness of a monster who slipped easily into a bright, affluent Midwestern suburb, where no one suspected the dapper, charming Holmes -- who alternately posed as doctor, druggist, and inventor to snare his prey -- was the architect of a labyrinthine 'Castle of Horrors. ' Holmes admitted to twenty-seven murders by the time his madhouse of trapdoors, asphyxiation devices, body chutes, and acid vats was exposed. The seminal profile of a homegrown madman in the era of Jack the Ripper, 'Depraved' is also a mesmerizing tale of true detection long before the age of technological wizardry.