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A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF. When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree -- the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime -- were as relevant in the so-called Age of Innocence as they are today. Jesse Pomeroy was outwardly repellent in appearance, with a gruesome "dead" eye; inside, he was deformed beyond imagining. A sexual sadist of disturbing precocity, he satisfied his atrocious appetites by abducting and torturing his child victims. But soon, the teenager's bloodlust gave way to another obsession: murder. Harold Schechter, whose true-crime masterpieces are "well-documented nightmares for anyone who dares to look" (Peoria Journal Star), brings his acclaimed mix of page-turning storytelling, brilliant insight, and fascinating historical documentation to Fiend -- an unforgettable account from the annals of American crime.

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"Dressed in the street clothes they had given him-a shabby gray suit, its baggy pants supported by galluses; a rumpled white shirt, its collar too small to button; an old silk tie that dangled halfway down his chest; and a grotesque, checkered cap that sat "

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  • Title Fiend: The Shocking True Story of Americas Youngest Serial Killer
  • Author Harold Schechter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Gallery Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2000-10-01
  • ISBN 9780671014483 / 067101448X
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.17 x 6.1 x 0.88 in (23.29 x 15.49 x 2.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
  • Category True Crime / Espionage
  • Library of Congress subjects Serial murderers - Massachusetts - Boston, Pomeroy, Jesse Harding
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001269948
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/2000, Page 1268
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/02/2000, Page 75

About the author

Harold Schechter is Professor Emeritus at Queens College, where he taught classes in American literature and myth criticism for forty-two years. His essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and many more. An esteemed true crime historian, he has written the definitive accounts of some of America's most infamous murderers, including the nonfiction books Fatal, Fiend, Bestial, Deviant, Deranged, Depraved, and The Serial Killers File. He is the editor of the Library of America volume, True Crime: An American Anthology. He has twice been a finalist for an Edgar Award. His most recent books include Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness and Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects. In addition to his work in narrative nonfiction, Schechter is the author of an acclaimed series of detective novels based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. He lives with his family in New York.

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