Description: Excellent condition. Clean, crisp pages. Essentially a new book. Fast, free shipping. 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. Inventory code: 20JUN24_B7_1R_1
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Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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EAN: 9781439124055
ISBN: 1439124051
Binding: TP
Book Title: Depraved : The Definitive True Story of H. H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-Of-the-Century Chicago
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Gallery Books
Publication Year: 2008
Topic: Murder / General, Murder / Serial Killers, General, Criminology
Item Height: 1.3 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: True Crime, Social Science
Item Weight: 14 Oz
Author: Harold Schechter
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
