The Mad Sculptor
Author : Harold Schechter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-02-27
ISBN 10 : 9781781853085
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (53 downloads)
Download The Mad Sculptor PDF Full Free by Harold Schechter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.