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Murder among friends : how Leopold and Loeb tried to commit the perfect crime / Candace Fleming.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593177426
- ISBN: 0593177428
- ISBN: 9780593177433
- ISBN: 0593177436
- Physical Description: 355 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Anne Schwartz Books, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-343) and index. |
| Target Audience Note: | 850L Lexile. |
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| Subject: | Franks, Bobby, 1909-1924. Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, 1904-1971. Loeb, Richard A., 1905-1936. Murderers > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies. Murder > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies. Trials (Murder) > Illinois > Cook County. Kidnapping > Illinois > Chicago > History > Case studies. Trials (Murder) > Illinois > Chicago > History > Case studies. Murderers > Illinois > Chicago > Biography. Murder > Illinois > Chicago > Biography. Kidnapping > Illinois > Chicago > History > Biography. Trials (Murder) > Illinois > Chicago > History > Biography. Murderers > Illinois > Chicago. Murder > Illinois > Chicago. |
| Genre: | Young adult literature. Case studies. True crime stories. Biographies. |
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- 4 of 4 copies available at Sage Library System.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Baker Haines Branch | 364.1523092 .F597m 2022 (Text) | 37814003671816 | YOUNG ADULT - NEW | Available | - | ||
| Hood River Valley High School Library | 364.152 FLE (Text) | 33892006116173 | NON-FICTION | Available | - | ||
| Lake County Main Library - Lakeview | YA 364.152 FLEMING (Text) | 37620000993909 | Young Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Vale High School Library | 364 FLEMING (Text) | 37770000033675 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
