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Man-Eater written by Harold Schechter performed by Eric G. Dove on Audio CD (Unabridged)

Man-Eater written by Harold Schechter performed by Eric G. Dove on Audio CD (Unabridged)£19.99

In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a different name: 'the Man-Eater.' After the butchered remains of his five traveling companions were discovered in a secluded...

The Maniac, The Model and the Murder that shook the Nation written by Harold Schechter performed by Peter Berkrot on CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9781480555419
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  History
Duration:  656 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Harold Schechter
Performer 1:  Peter Berkrot

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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 - commited a grisly triple murder.

Creeping back to the flat of his ex-landlady in a swish New York borough, Irwin killed her, her lodger, and her stunning daughter Ronnie with an ice-pick, an apparently motiveless homicide that would shock the entire country.

Firmly in 'you couldn't make it up' territory, and 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.

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