Автор: Brown Kurt, Schechter Harold
Название: Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem
ISBN: 0307700933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307700933
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 5130 T
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"Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem "is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder.
The villains and victims who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men. The literary forms they inhabit are just as varied, from the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads to the hard-boiled poetry of twentieth-century noir, from lighthearted comic riffs to profound poetic musings on murder. Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Mark Doty, Frank Bidart, Toi Derricotte, Lynn Emanuel, and Cornelius Eady are only a few of the many poets, old and new, whose work is captured in this heart-stopping and criminally entertaining collection."

Автор: Schechter Harold
Название: The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder That Shook the Nation
ISBN: 0544114310 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544114319
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 9870 T
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Автор: Schechter, Harold
Название: The Devil`s Gentleman
ISBN: 0345476794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345476791
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9870 T
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Автор: Schechter, Harold
Название: Deranged
ISBN: 0671678752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780671678753
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 4410 T
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Описание: Harold Schechter, America`s principle chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers, tells the tale of real-life serial killer Albert Fish in this reissue of one of his most popular books.

Автор: Schechter, Harold
Название: Whole death catalogue
ISBN: 0345499646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345499646
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Everything You`ve Ever Wanted to Know About the Bitter End.

Автор: Schechter Harold
Название: Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard of
ISBN: 0345524470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345524478
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 7610 T
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Описание: AMERICA'S MOST COLD-BLOODED
In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity psychopath who's gotten ink for spilling blood, there's a bevy of all-but-forgotten homicidal fiends studding the bloody margins of U.S. history. The law gave them their just desserts, but now the hugely acclaimed author of "The Serial Killer Files" and "The Whole Death Catalog" gives them their dark due in this absolutely riveting true-crime treasury. Among America's most cold-blooded you'll meet
- Robert Irwin, "The Mad Sculptor" He longed to use his carving skills on the woman he loved--but had to settle for making short work of her mother and sister instead.
- Peter Robinson, "The Tell-Tale Heart Killer" It took two days and four tries for him to finish off his victim, but no time at all for keen-eyed cops to spot the fatal flaw in his floor plan.
- Anton Probst, "The Monster in the Shape of a Man" The ax-murdering immigrant's systematic slaughter of all eight members of a Pennsylvania farm family matched the savagery of the Manson murders a century later.
- Edward H. Ruloff, "The Man of Two Lives" A genuine Jekyll and Hyde, his brilliant scholarship disguised his bloodthirsty brutality, and his oversized brain gave new meaning to "mastermind."
Spurred by profit, passion, paranoia, or perverse pleasure, these killers--the Witch of Staten Island, the Smutty Nose Butcher, the Bluebeard of Quiet Dell, and many others--span three centuries and a host of harrowing murder methods. Dramatized in the pages of penny dreadfuls, sensationalized in tabloid headlines, and immortalized in "murder ballads" and classic fiction by Edgar Allan Poe and Theodore Dreiser, the demonic denizens of "Psycho USA" may be long gone to the gallows--but this insidiously irresistible slice of gothic Americana will ensure that they'll no longer be forgotten.

Автор: Schechter D
Название: When news lies
ISBN: 1590790731 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590790731
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Автор: Schechter, Joel
Название: Messiahs of 1933
ISBN: 1592138721 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781592138722
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 15430 T
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Описание: An examination of the vitality and imagination of Yiddish Theatre during the Great Depression. It introduces readers to the once-famous writers and actors - Moishe Nadir, David Pinski, Yosl Cutler, and others - who brought into artistic form their visions of peace, social justice, and satire for all.

Автор: Schechter, Doris
Название: At Oma`s Table
ISBN: 1557885214 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781557885210
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9110 T
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Автор: Schechter
Название: My Brain Is Open
ISBN: 0684859807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780684859804
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Описание: Paul Erdos, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, and certainly the most eccentric, was internationally recognized as a prodigy by age seventeen. Hungarian-born Erdos believed that the meaning of life was to prove and conjecture. His work in the United States and all over the world has earned him the titles of the century's leading number theorist and the most prolific mathematician who ever lived. Erdos's important work has proved pivotal to the development of computer science, and his unique personality makes him an unforgettable character in the world of mathematics. Incapable of the smallest of household tasks and having no permanent home or job, he was sustained by the generosity of colleagues and by his own belief in the beauty of numbers.
Witty and filled with the sort of mathematical puzzles that intrigued Erdos and continue to fascinate mathematicians today, "My Brain Is Open" is the story of this strange genius and a journey in his footsteps through the world of mathematics, where universal truths await discovery like hidden treasures and where brilliant proofs are poetry."

Автор: Schechter, Harold
Название: The Mask of Red Death
ISBN: 0449007227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780449007228
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 5310 T
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Автор: Schechter Harold
Название: Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend
ISBN: 0345476816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345476814
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10650 T
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Описание: With such acclaimed works as The Devil’s Gentleman, Harold Schechter has earned renown as the dean of true-crime historians. Now, in this gripping account of driving ambition, doomed love, and brutal murder in an iconic American family, Schechter again casts his gaze into the sinister shadows of gaslit nineteenth-century New York City.
In September 1841, a grisly discovery is made aboard a merchant ship docked in lower Manhattan: Deep in the cargo hold, bound with rope and covered with savage head wounds, lies a man’s naked corpse. While a murderer has taken pains to conceal his victim’s identity, it takes little time to determine that the dead man is Samuel Adams, proprietor of a local printing firm. And in less time still, witnesses and a bloody trail of clues lead investigators to the doorstep of the enigmatic John Colt.
The scion of a prosperous Connecticut family, Colt has defied his parents’ efforts to mold him into a gentleman—preferring to flout authority and pursue excitement. Ironically, it is the ordered science of accountancy that for a time lends him respectability. But now John Colt’s ghastly crime and the subsequent sensational murder trial bring infamy to his surname—even after it becomes synonymous with his visionary younger brother’s groundbreaking invention.
 
The embodiment of American success, Sam Colt has risen from poor huckster to industrious inventor. His greatest achievement, the revolver, will bring him untold millions even as it transforms the American West. In John’s hour of need, Sam rushes to his brother’s side—perhaps because of the secret they share.
In Gilded Age New York, a city awash with treacherous schemers, lurid dime-museum curiosities, and the tawdry excesses of penny-press journalism, the Colt-Adams affair inspires tabloid headlines of startling and gruesome hyperbole, which in turn drive legions of thrill-seekers to John Colt’s trial. The dramatic legal proceedings will fire the imagination of pioneering crime writer Edgar Allan Poe and fuel the righteous outrage of journalist Walt Whitman.
Killer Colt interweaves the intriguing stories of brooding, brilliant John and imaginative, enterprising Sam—sharp-witted and fascinating brothers on vastly divergent journeys, bound by an abiding mutual devotion and a mystery they will conceal to the end. Harold Schechter has mined the darkly macabre vein of a bygone era and brought forth a mother lode of storytelling gold.