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Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer

Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer

Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer
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Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer

by Harold Schechter

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9780671732165
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Pocket Books, 1994 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. book is tight with no markings, dj is price clipped, minor creasing along the edges, great copy.

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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 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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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer
Author
Harold Schechter
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition/First Printing
ISBN 10
0671732161
ISBN 13
9780671732165
Publisher
Pocket Books
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1994
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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