Harold Schechter: Depraved, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Depraved
- The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago
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- Verlag:
- Pocket Books, 08/2008
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781439124055
- Artikelnummer:
- 6864170
- Umfang:
- 444 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 481 g
- Maße:
- 203 x 127 mm
- Stärke:
- 26 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 4.8.2008
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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.