Filter By Authors
Campbell, Hilary Fitzgerald Epstein, Steven B. Fleming, Candace Larkin, Deborah HoltFilter By Series
Criterion collection ; 335Filter By Authors
Campbell, Hilary Fitzgerald Epstein, Steven B. Fleming, Candace Larkin, Deborah HoltFilter By Series
Criterion collection ; 335Fleming, Candace
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLELarkin, Deborah Holt
Summary: "Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet November night in Santa Barbara, a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her apartment. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that Olga's mother in-law--a deeply manipulative and deceptive woman--had been doing everything in her power to separate Olga...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 LAREpstein, Steven B.
Summary: Was Jason the monster who bludgeoned his beautiful wife to death, leaving his toddler alone for hours to walk through her blood? If so -- would he get away with it? To the outside world, Jason and Michelle Young lived a storybook life -- an attractive couple with great jobs, a beautiful home, a precocious two-year-old daughter, and a baby boy on the way. Soon after the 29-year-old pregnant...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lyon Publishing 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 EPSSummary: It tells the shocking story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb; wealthy college students who had planned to abduct and kill a child at random just to prove they were smart enough to get away with it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Julien is a former paratrooper, who now works for millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala. He is in love with Florence, Carala's wife. They plan to murder him and make it look like a suicide, but Julien forgets a rather important detail. Leaving the engine of his sports car running, he races up to the office to retrieve it, but fate intervenes, and Julien misses his rendezvous with Florence. She...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELECampbell, Hilary Fitzgerald
Summary: "Why is it so much fun to read about death and dismemberment? In Murder Book, lifelong true-crime obsessive and New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell tries to puzzle out the answer. An unconventional graphic exploration of a lifetime of Ann Rule super-fandom, amateur armchair sleuthing, and a deep dive into the high-profile murders that have fascinated the author for decades, this is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021