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For the Thrill of It

✍ Scribed by Baatz, Simon

Book ID: 108250299
Publisher: HarperCollins
Tongue: English
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 8019939199

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It was a crime that shocked the nation, a brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child, by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb had first met several years earlier, and their friendship had blossomed into a love affair. Both were intellectualstoo smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. However, the police had recovered an important clue at the scene of the crimea pair of eyeglassesand soon both Leopold and Loeb were in the custody of Cook County. They confessed, and Robert Crowe, the state's attorney, announced to newspaper reporters that he had a hanging case. No defense, he believed, would save the two ruthless killers from the gallows.

Set against the backdrop of the 1920s, a time of prosperity, self-indulgence, and hedonistic excess, For the Thrill of It draws the reader into a lost world, a world of speakeasies and flappers, of gangsters and gin parties, that existed when Chicago was...

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