The mad sculptor : the maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation

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Label

The mad sculptor : the maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation

Title remainder

the maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation

Statement of responsibility

Harold Schechter

Creator

• Schechter, Harold

Subject

• Irwin, Robert, 1907-1975
• PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General
• Serial murderers -- New York (State) | New York
• TRUE CRIME / Murder / General

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"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

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