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Deviant

Deviant

Harold Schechter

This is his story—recounted in fascinating and chilling detail by Harold Schechter, one of the most acclaimed true-crime storytellers of our time.
Depraved

Depraved

Harold Schechter

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.
The New Gods: Psyche and Symbol in Popular Art

The New Gods: Psyche and Symbol in Popular Art

Harold Schechter

Harold Schechter looks at the impossible tales and images of popular art--the space odysseys and extraterrestrial civilizations, the caped crusaders and men of steel, and monsters from the ocean floor--and finds close connections between ...
Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster

Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster

Harold Schechter

Drawing on the "gruesome, awesome, compelling reporting" (Ann Rule) that is his trademark, Harold Schechter takes a dark journey into the mind of an unrepentant sadist -- and brilliantly lays bare the myth of innocence that shrouded a ...
The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

Harold Schechter

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.
Fiend: The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Seria

Fiend: The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Seria

Harold Schechter

Harold Schechter, whose true-crime masterpieces are "well-documented nightmares for anyone who dares to look" (Peoria Journal Star), brings his acclaimed mix of page-turning storytelling, brilliant insight, and fascinating historical ...
Nevermore

Nevermore

Harold Schechter

Nevermore A literary critic known for his scathing pen, Edgar Allan Poe is a young struggling writer, plagued by dreadful ruminations and horrific visions.
Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish ...

Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish ...

Harold Schechter

What Albert Fish did to Grace Budd, and perhaps fifteen other young children, caused experts to pronounce him the most deranged human being they had ever seen.
The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

Harold Schechter

A revised edition is comprised of hundreds of entries on serial murderers and their crimes, offering insight into the phenomenon of serial killing while sharing a wealth of well-publicized and lesser-known details.
Outcry

Outcry

Harold Schechter

Investigating a series of brutal murders, reporter Paul Novak stumbles into the legend of Ed Gein, the "butcher of Plainfield, Wisconsin," and follows local lore to the ramshackle home of a bizarre young man. Original.
Serial Killer Quarterly Vol.1 No.3 “Unsolved in North America”:

Serial Killer Quarterly Vol.1 No.3 “Unsolved in North America”:

Harold Schechter

“It is likely thatthese two individuals were mother and child,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said. Accordingto police, thetoddler was describedas a “non Caucasian”and was wearing hoop earrings anda necklace.
Casualty Actuarial Society Forum

Casualty Actuarial Society Forum

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JACK: HAROLD JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: HAROLD: JACK: JILL: HAROLD JACK: HAROLD JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: Have you implemented tough, new cost-saving measures? Yes sir! We cutout vacations, holidays, ...
Who Killed the Queen?: The Story of a Community Hospital and ...

Who Killed the Queen?: The Story of a Community Hospital and ...

Holly Dressel

1 Griffith, Harold, “Highlights in the Life of Harold Randall Griffith.” Griffith, Harold. Diary entry, 160. Griffith, Harold. “Highlights in the Life of Harold Randall Griffith,” 31. This and all subsequent quotes about Vimy are from Harold Griffith's letter ...
The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter

The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter

Peter Raby

28 Harold Pinter, The Caretaker, Complete Works: Two, p. 19. 29 Harold Pinter, The Collection, Complete Works: Two, p. 151. 30 Harold Pinter, in Conversations with Pinter, ed. Gussow, p. 71. The reference is to The Birthday Party, Complete ...
Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters, 1907-1964

Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters, 1907-1964

Harold Nicolson

Harold Nicolson is one of the three great political diarists of the 20th century. Nicolson was an MP who attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
U.S. Tax Cases

U.S. Tax Cases

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The Ownership of Slock in Lyndon Wood Products by Defendant Harold G. Stciner, and of Stock in S &□ 1' Tree Farms, Inc., by Defendants Harold G. Steiner and Ollic Mae Steiner I find and determine that defendant Harold G. Steiner is the ...
Harold at the North Pole

Harold at the North Pole

Crockett Johnson

It's up to the ever-resourceful Harold to draw up a plan and save Christmas! Ever since the publication of Harold and the Purple Crayon in 1955, Crockett Johnson's crayon-wielding hero has had a devoted following.
Twentieth Century Accounting Thinkers (RLE Accounting)

Twentieth Century Accounting Thinkers (RLE Accounting)

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HAROLD C. EDEY The youngest member of the Triumvirate is Harold Edey; he was also the last to join the staff of the LSE. Harold Edey followed the traditional training of an English chartered accountant in the 1930s. Leaving school at the ...
Caduceus

Caduceus

Kappa Sigma Fraternity

HAROLD CLARK POWELL Harold Clark Powell, initiated by Beta-Xi Chapter at the University of California in September, 1920, son of the late Worthy Grand Master G. Harold Powell (Cornell), died in South Africa as a result of an accident on ...
Harold Wilson and European Integration: Britain's Second ...

Harold Wilson and European Integration: Britain's Second ...

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This aspect of Wilson's strategy is also discussed in Pimlott, Harold Wilson, pp. 435–6; Morgan, Harold Wilson, p. 291; Morgan, Callaghan, p. 254. Castle, The Castle Diaries, p. 208 (6 January 1967). Williams also attempts to exonerate Wilson ...
The Scottish World

The Scottish World

Harold Orel

Introduction Harold Orel, University Distinguished Professor in English, The University of Kansas i i i SCOTTISH STEREOTYPES Harold Orel 13 2 FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO 1058 Leslie Alcock, Professor of Archaeology, and Alexander ...
Public hearing on House Resolution 88 (1973-74): mentally ...

Public hearing on House Resolution 88 (1973-74): mentally ...

California. Legislature. Assembly. Select Committee on Mentally Disordered Criminal Offenders

Thank you. Dr. Harold Deering, Orange County Mental Health Services. DR. HAROLD C. PEERING: I am Harold C. Deering, M.D. I, for two years, have been in charge of the forensic psychiatry team for Orange County. We have been operating ...
Harold's ABC

Harold's ABC

Crockett Johnson

Taking along his purple crayon, Harold journeys from A to Z, each letter generating a picture from which the word becomes part of an uninterrupted story.
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom. PETER FREESE. Kurt. Vonnegut's. Slaughterhouse-Five. or,. How. to. Storify. an. Atrocity. D. uring the night of February 13, 1945, three waves of British and ...
Harold Larwood

Harold Larwood

Duncan Hamilton

Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, this is the first ever biography of Harold Larwood.

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