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The true story of a failing sculptor who killed three people with an ice-pick, went on the run, sold his story to a newspaper and used the money to hire one of America´s most successful criminal lawyers.

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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.

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´Reads like fiction but it´s chillingly real.´ The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Schechter, Harold
Harold Schechter is a professor of American literature. He is the co-author of THE A TO Z ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SERIAL KILLERS. He is also the author of a series of acclaimed historical novels featuring Edgar Allan Poe.

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