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The Mad Sculptor

The Mad Sculptor

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The Mad Sculptor: The Model, The Maniac, And The Murderer That Rocked 1930s America by Harold Schechter 

An unputdownable true crime story set in the pulp-fiction obsessed world of 1930s America.

On Easter Sunday 1937, Bob Irwin – a handsome, failing sculptor with a history of depression and psychopathic episodes – commited a grisly triple murder. Creeping back to the flat of his ex-landlady in a swish New York borough, Irwin killed her, her lodger, and her stunning daughter Ronnie with an ice-pick, an apparently motiveless homicide that would shock the entire country.

Firmly in 'you couldn't make it up' territory, and crafted like a Chandler novel, THE MAD SCULPTOR thrillingly relates Irwin's crime, flight, and capture, his trial and its aftermath, whilst painting a warts-and-all portrait of 1930s America.

  • Format: Paperback
  • Published: 2014
  • Pages: 1304
  • ISBN: 9781781854495

Paperback pre-owned book in very good condition. 

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