Harold Schechter- The Mad Sculptor

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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 - committed a grisly triple murder. Creeping back to the flat of his ex-landlady, Mary Gedeon, in a swish New York borough, Irwin killed Mrs Gedeon, her lodger, and her stunning daughter Ronnie with an icepick,

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.

PRAISE FOR HAROLD SCHECHTER

'Reads like fiction but it's chillingly real.' The Philadelphia Inquirer

'Top-drawer true-crime.' Booklist