Harold Schechter's Books
There are 9 books
1.
Nevermore
By: Harold Schechter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: August 17, 2009
Historical fact and startling literary invention converge in this stunning novel by "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review). Praised by Caleb Carr for his "brilliantly...
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2.
Fatal
The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer
By: Harold Schechter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: August 11, 2009
In an era that produced some of the most vicious female sociopaths in American history, Jane Toppan would become the most notorious of them all. AN ANGEL OF MERCY In 1891, Jane Toppan, a proper New England matron, embarked...
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3.
Outcry
By: Harold Schechter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publication date: August 11, 2009
4.
Depraved
By: Harold Schechter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publication date: August 4, 2008
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....
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5.
The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
By: Harold Schechter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publication date: July 4, 2006
Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed...
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6.
Fiend
The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Serial Killer
By: Harold Schechter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: October 1, 2000
A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF. When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of...
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7.
Bestial
The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
By: Harold Schechter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publication date: September 1, 1999
FROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER -- HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA. San Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant tales of the Whitechapel...
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8.
Deviant
By: Harold Schechter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publication date: October 1, 1998
The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs... From "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book...
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9.
Deranged
The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer
By: Harold Schechter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publication date: October 1, 1998
LURED FROM THE SAFETY OF HOME -- INTO THE JAWS OF HELL "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review), Harold Schechter shatters the myth that violent crime is a modern...
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