An unputdownable true crime story set in the pulp-fiction obsessed world of 1930s America.
On Easter Sunday 1937, Bob Irwin – a handsome, failing sculptor with a history of depression and psychopathic episodes – commited a grisly triple murder. Creeping back to the flat of his ex-landlady in a swish New York borough, Irwin killed her, her lodger, and her stunning daughter Ronnie with an ice-pick, an apparently motiveless homicide that would shock the entire country.
Crafted like a Chandler novel, THE MAD SCULPTOR thrillingly relates Irwin's crime, flight, and capture, his trial and its aftermath, whilst painting a vivid portrait of 1930s America.
- ISBN10 178185307X
- ISBN13 9781781853078
- Publish Date 14 August 2014 (first published 18 February 2014)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 March 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Head of Zeus
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 384
- Language English