Depraved : The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-of-the-Century Chicago Paperback / softback
by Harold Schechter
Paperback / softback
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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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages, 8 pg b-w insert
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date:04/08/2008
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- ISBN:9781439124055
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages, 8 pg b-w insert
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date:04/08/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9781439124055
