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For the thrill of it : Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked jazz age Chicago
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- Creator
- Simon Baatz
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Harper Perennial edition
- New York : Harper Perennial, [2009]
- Physical Details
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- xi, 541 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780060781026, 0060781025
- OCLC
- ocn262884942
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [467]-510) and index.
- 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