Research Catalog

Title

Murder among friends : how Leopold and Loeb tried to commit the perfect crime / Candace Fleming.

Author

Fleming, Candace

Publication

• New York, NY : Anne Schwartz Books, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Description

355 pages,16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

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 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.

Subject

• Franks, Bobby, 1909-1924 > Juvenile literature
• Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, 1904-1971 > Juvenile literature
• Loeb, Richard A., 1905-1936 > Juvenile literature
• Franks, Bobby, 1909-1924
• Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, 1904-1971
• Loeb, Richard A., 1905-1936
• Murderers > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies > Juvenile literature
• Murder > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies > Juvenile literature
• Trials (Murder) > Illinois > Cook County > Juvenile literature
• Kidnapping > Illinois > Chicago > History > Case studies > Juvenile literature
• Trials (Murder) > Illinois > Chicago > History > Case studies > Juvenile literature
• Murderers > Illinois > Chicago > Biography > Juvenile literature
• Murder > Illinois > Chicago > Biography > Juvenile literature
• Kidnapping > Illinois > Chicago > History > Biography > Juvenile literature
• Trials (Murder) > Illinois > Chicago > History > Biography > Juvenile literature
• Murderers > Illinois > Chicago > Juvenile literature
• Murder > Illinois > Chicago > Juvenile literature
• Murderers > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies
• Murder > Illinois > Chicago > Case studies
• Trials (Murder) > Illinois > Cook County
• Trials (Murder) > Illinois > Chicago > History > Case studies
• Murderers > Illinois > Chicago > Biography
• Murder > Illinois > Chicago > Biography
• Trials (Murder) > Illinois > Chicago > History > Biography
• Kidnapping
• Murder
• Murderers
• Trials (Murder)
• Young adult literature
• Illinois > Chicago
• Illinois > Cook County

Genre/Form

• Case studies.
• True crime stories.
• Young adult literature.
• Biographies.
• History.
• Young adult works.
• Juvenile works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index.

Audience (note)

• 850L

Contents

Part one: Where is Bobby?. Wednesday, May 21, 1924 ; The longest night -- Part two: Boys will be boys. Nathan and Richard ; The superman and the master criminal ; Apart and together ; Planning the perfect crime -- Part three: Tracking the killers. Thursday, May 22, 1924 ; Search for the killers ; A murderer's theories, a coroner's inquest ; Saturday, May 24-Sunday, May 25, 1924 ; Interrogation ; Another day in custody -- Part four: Confessions. "I will tell you the real truth" ; Murderers' field trip ; "Impaling a beetle on a pin" ; Darrow for the defense ; Searching for insanity -- Part five: Courtroom battle. Surprise strategy ; A hot day in court ; Battles in and out of court ; New-school psychiatry takes the stand ; "The ageing lion" vs. "fighting Bob" ; Waiting ; "Nothing but the night" ; "Life in prison is just what you make it".

Call Number

JFE 23-263

ISBN

• 9780593177426
• 0593177428
• 9780593177433
• 0593177436

LCCN

2022286331

OCLC

1295183963

Author

Fleming, Candace, author.

Title

Murder among friends : how Leopold and Loeb tried to commit the perfect crime / Candace Fleming.

Publisher

New York, NY : Anne Schwartz Books, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index.

Audience

850L Lexile

Research Call Number

JFE 23-263