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The mad sculptor : the maniac, the model, and the murder that shook the nation /

"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 abbatoir...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schechter, Harold
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : New Harvest, 2014.
Subjects:
Irwin, Robert, > 1907-1975.
Serial murderers > New York (State) > New York.
PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General.
TRUE CRIME / Murder / General.
Serial murderers.
New York (State) > New York.
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.