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Author:

Fleming, Candace, author.

Title:

Murder among friends : how Leopold and Loeb tried to commit the perfect crime / Candace Fleming.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Anne Schwartz Books,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

355 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Franks, Bobby,--1909-1924.
Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal,--1904-1971.
Loeb, Richard A.,--1905-1936.
Murderers--Chicago--Chicago--Case studies.
Murder--Chicago--Chicago--Case studies.
Trials (Murder)--Cook County.--Cook County.
Kidnapping--Chicago--Chicago--History--Case studies.
Trials (Murder)--Chicago--Chicago--History--Case studies.
Murderers--Chicago--Chicago--Biography.
Murder--Chicago--Chicago--Biography.
Kidnapping--Chicago--Chicago--History--Biography.
Trials (Murder)--Chicago--Chicago--History--Biography.
Case studies.
True crime stories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-343) and index.

Contents:

Where is Bobby? -- Boys will be boys -- Tracking the killers -- Confessions -- Courtroom battle.

Summary:

How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping and murdering a child they both knew. But they made one crucial error: as they were disposing of the body of young Bobby Franks, whom they had bludgeoned to death, Nathan's eyeglasses fell from his jacket pocket. Multi-award-winning author Candace Fleming depicts every twist and turn of this harrowing case--how two wealthy, brilliant young men planned and committed what became known as the crime of the century, how they were caught, why they confessed, and how the renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow enabled them to avoid the death penalty. Following on the success of such books as The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh and The Family Romanov, this acclaimed nonfiction writer brings to heart-stopping life one of the most notorious crimes in our country's history.

ISBN:

0593177436
9780593177433
0593177428
9780593177426

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1295183963

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