In the crime annals of twentieth-century America, three cases stand out: the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby; the Sacco and Vanzetti affair, which reflected - as early as the twenties - the ordinary American's passionate hatred of 'un-American activities'; and - most extraordinary of all - the case of Harry Thaw, who killed Stanford White, New York's 'Great Voluptuary', in 1907. (Thaw defended himself of the grounds of 'Dementia Americana' - the right to shoot a seducer with impunity.)
These cases still retain their power to fascinate and horrify us. Rupert Furneauz's graphic descriptions not only recall the drama of the trials but also recreaate all the tension that accompanied them far beyond the courtroom.
'I seen a kid killed . . . He strangled it, up by the horse.' When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks ...
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