For the thrill of it : Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked jazz age Chicago

Baatz, Simon (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0060781025
ISBN: 9780060781026
Physical Description: xi, 541 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
print
Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.
Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, [2009]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-510) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

List of illustrations -- Preface -- Part 1: Crime -- 1: Kidnapping -- 2: Relationship -- 3: Planning the murder -- 4: Murder -- 5: Ransom -- 6: Interrogation -- 7: Confessions -- Part 2: Attorneys -- 8: Clarence Darrow -- 9: Robert Crowe -- Part 3: Courtroom -- 10: Indictment -- 11: Scientists arrive -- 12: Mitigation of punishment -- 13: Psychiatrists for the defense -- 14: Psychiatrists for the state -- 15: Closing statements -- 16: Sentencing -- 17: Aftermath -- Leopold and Loeb in fiction -- Author's note -- Sources -- Notes -- Index -- Illustration credits.