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All Books. Historical True Crime. Pop Culture. Academic Works. Mysteries. Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend. read more. Dr. Werthless: The Man Who Studied Murder (And Nearly Killed the Comics Industry) read more.
Harold Schechter. 1,666 likes · 6 talking about this. Author of historical true-crime classics and a series of mystery novels featuring Edgar Allan Poe. Harold Schechter. 1,666 likes · 6 talking about this.
26 de sept. de 2023 · Hardcover – September 26, 2023. From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes a unique look into the history of crime told through the dark objects left behind. The false teeth of a female serial killer from 1908, the cut-and-paste confession of the Black Dahlia killer, the newly cracked cipher of the Zodiac killer, the shotgun used ...
Schechter, Harold 1948–PERSONAL: Born June 28, 1948, in New York, NY; son of Abraham Mark (a garment worker) and Celia (a statistician and homemaker; maiden name, Wasserman) Schechter; married Avra Shapiro, January, 1970 (divorced August, 1976); married Jonna Gormely Se-meiks (a writer and teacher), July 15, 1979 (divorced, 2001); married Kimiko Hahn (a poet), August 15, 2002; children ...
Deviant. Harold Schechter. Simon and Schuster, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 256 pages. From the author of “top-drawer true crime” (Booklist) books comes the definitive account of Ed Gein—the man whose shocking crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. The year was 1957.
Listen Now. 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 ...
Harold Schechter is the author of historical true crime books and editor of an anthology of American true crime writing published by the Library of America. His book The Mad Sculptor was a 2015 Edgar nominee. He is also the author of Hell’s Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men.
