
Depraved: The Definitive True Story Of H.h. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago
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...
Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Pocket Star (January 27, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743490355
ISBN-13: 978-0743490351
Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1 x 6.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 1474982
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“After reading "Devil in the White City" by Eric Larsen and then "The Devil's Gentleman" by Harold Schechter, I picked up this book to read on my Kindle. The book is fascinating, and Schechter makes it read like fiction. He is highly skilled in evok...”
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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