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An acerbic period sketch and a readable tale of pure Gothic horror straight from the heartland of America. The ghoulish saga of Dr. Holmes, the dapper devil who established himself as America's first serial killer years ago. He begins with a dramatic depiction of the Great Chicago Fire of He then writes of a New Hampshire boy named Herman who is 11 years in ; Herman has a penchant for skinning and deboning live animals. The next time we see him, it is under the alias of Dr.

Depraved book

Account Options Ieiet. Harold Schechter. By age eleven he was conducting secret experiments on small animals and strays, becoming skilled at disabling his subjects without killing them. In he appeared in the Chicago suburb of Englewood, Illinois, and introduced himself as Dr. Holmes to the wife of the ailing owner of Holton's drugstore. He was hired on the spot, and under his management the store prospered. But when Holmes's attempt to purchase the drugstore from Mrs. Holton went sour, and she sued him, she inexplicably disappeared - never to be seen or heard from again. He hired and fired a succession of workmen to build the castle, thus eliminating witnesses to its secrets: a labyrinth of trapdoors, winding passageways, dark dead-end halls, stairways to nowhere, bedchambers fitted with peepholes and asphyxiating gas pipes, soundproof vaults and torture chambers, greased chutes large enough to send human bodies from the living quarters to a cellar equipped with acid vats, a crematorium, a dissecting table, and cases full of gleaming surgical tools. But his increasing audacity and carelessness during his reign of terror led to his discovery and to "The Trial of the Century," in which Holmes finally confessed to twenty-seven murders. While he later recanted - maintaining his innocence until his final breath - he had already achieved immortality as the most monstrous criminal of his day.

Not really ,my cup of tea normally but this time I did not mind. I'd recommend if you want all of the true facts of the case, but don't expect to be on the edge of your seat. Ask a question, depraved book.

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Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. Harold Schechter. The heinous bloodlust of Dr. Holmes is notorious--but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of the Chicago World's Fair. The seminal profile of a homegrown madman in the era of Jack the Ripper, Depraved is also a mesmerizing tale of true detection long before the age of technological wizardry.

Depraved book

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Community Reviews. Paul Nelson. Join the discussion. His future is pretty bleak. While not constant in its shock value thank God , it certainly had enough to make me feel edgy and grossed out most of the time while reading this. The main characters were written exactly as they should be and I was rooting for all of them to make it. Murderabilia - by Harold Schechter Hardcover. Reading both gives you a very well-rounded picture of a very sick man. Holmes to the wife of the ailing owner of Holton's drugstore. She operated by reflex. And while the story of inbred cannibalistic backwoods psychos is not entirely original, Smith makes it worth the read with compelling characters, excellent pacing, nonstop violence blood gore guts and of course, depravity. It is a look into the unthinkable.

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