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Charmer : A Ladies Man and His Victims, Paperback / softback Book

Charmer : A Ladies Man and His Victims Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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This is the story of George, an African American who grew up in a Caucasian suburb of Seattle, where his unaffectionate mother and racial isolation led him to develop an effervescent personality in order to get along.

He became a small-time burglar and an accomplished liar--a wisecracking "smoothy" who pretended to be an undercover detective.

George made lots of friends, especially within a subculture of giggly young white women who partied endlessly in upscale Seattle clubs during 1989-90. And he murdered three of them, bizarrely mutilating and "staging" their bodies.

The drinks, dancing, and deejays--the group pad where George lived with an adoring coterie of feckless college kids--Olsen gives us the quirky details that make the murderer's well-hidden rage and misogyny all the more shocking.

As the New York Times wrote, "Like fine cinema verite, [Charmer] mesmerizes us with the sense of watching real life, unaugmented, move before our eyes."

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