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The mad sculptor : the maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation, Harold Schechter
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 352 pages, [8] pages of plates
- Contents
-
- Beekman Place
- Fenelon
- The shadow of madness
- The mad sculptor
- The defender
- Isbn
- 9780544114319
- Label
- The mad sculptor : the maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation
- Title
- The mad sculptor
- Title remainder
- the maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation
- Statement of responsibility
- Harold Schechter
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Schechter, Harold
- Dewey number
- 364.152/32092
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV6534.N5
- LC item number
- S343 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Irwin, Robert
- Serial murderers
- PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General
- TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
- Label
- The mad sculptor : the maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation, Harold Schechter
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Beekman Place -- Fenelon -- The shadow of madness -- The mad sculptor -- The defender
- Control code
- 1533415
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 352 pages, [8] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780544114319
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013032240
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1533415
- (OCoLC)827841389
- Label
- The mad sculptor : the maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation, Harold Schechter
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Beekman Place -- Fenelon -- The shadow of madness -- The mad sculptor -- The defender
- Control code
- 1533415
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 352 pages, [8] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780544114319
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013032240
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1533415
- (OCoLC)827841389
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