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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: mad sculptor
    sub title: the maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation
  name:
    name part: Schechter, Harold.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Beekman Place, one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, hasn't always been home to the rich. In the 1930s, when bluebloods like the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers began to build luxury towers, poor European immigrants lived in filthy slums among the riverside factories and abbatoirs. It was in this setting that a young man committed a grisly triple-murder on Easter Sunday, 1937. The details of the case were so sensational that one might think it had been cooked up in a tabloid editor's overheated imagination. The charismatic perpetrator, Robert Irwin, was a promising young sculptor, but he was also deeply disturbed. An obsession with Veronica Gedeon, a stunning photographer's model, would inspire him to murder. Harold Schechter masterfully tells the story of the "Mad Sculptor" case, one of the most engrossing American crime dramas of the twentieth century--evoking an atmosphere and a madness that will have readers glued to their chairs"--
  table of contents: Cast of characters -- Prologue: 268 East 52nd Street, New York City -- pt. 1. Beekman Place. Dead end -- Vera and Fritz -- "Beauty slain in bathtub" -- Sex fiends -- pt. 2. Fenelon. The firebrand -- The brothers -- Epiphany -- Romanelli and Rady -- pt. 3. The shadow of madness. Depression -- The Gedeons -- Wertham -- Bug in a bottle -- The snake woman -- Canton -- Crisis -- pt. 4. The mad sculptor. Bloody Sunday -- The party girl -- Murder sells -- Prime suspect -- Manhunt -- pt. 5. The defender. Murder in Times Square -- Henrietta -- The front page -- Confession -- Celebrities -- Lunacy -- Plea -- Aftermath -- Epilogue: The Lonergan case.
  note: Harold Schechter.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ny
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Irwin, Robert
      name part: 1907-1975
  subject:
    topic: Serial murderers
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
  subject:
    topic: PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General
  subject:
    topic: TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Irwin, Robert
      name part: 1907-1975
  subject:
    topic: Serial murderers
  subject:
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
  classification: HV6534.N5 S343 2014
  classification: 364.152/32092
  classification: PSY022000 TRU002000
  identifier: 9780544114319 (hardback)
  identifier: 0544114310 (hardback)
  identifier: 2013032240
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130923
    record change date: 20151206125847.0
    record identifier: in00003490403
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng