Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer
by Schechter, Harold
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0671732161
- ISBN 13
- 9780671732165
- Seller
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Olathe, Kansas, United States
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Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mark Henderson (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044976
- Title
- Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer
- Author
- Schechter, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0671732161
- ISBN 13
- 9780671732165
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime;