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 295-343) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Where is Bobby? -- boys will be boys -- tracking the killers -- confessions -- courtroom battle.
- Target Audience Note:
- 850L Lexile
- Awards Note:
- A Junior Library Guild selection.
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- Subject:
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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. - Genre:
- Case studies.
True crime stories.
Biographies.
Young adult literature.
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- 75 of 77 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Iredell County Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 77 total copies.
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| Statesville Main Library | YA 364.152309 FLE (Text) | 33114018528703 | Young Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Statesville Main Library | YA 364.152309 FLE (Text) | 33114018529347 | Young Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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