"For the Thrill of It - Leopold, Loeb and the Crime That S..

"Living in Chicago breeds a taste for crime that derives
from one of the city's richest traditions. In what other
place, after all, is Valentine's Day associated with a
massacre?..."

Wall Street Journal book review: http://atu.ca/338fa

Amazon page: http://atu.ca/3ee

Dave U. Random wrote:
> "Living in Chicago breeds a taste for crime that derives
> from one of the city's richest traditions. In what other
> place, after all, is Valentine's Day associated with a
> massacre?..."
>
> Wall Street Journal book review: http://atu.ca/338fa
>
> Amazon page: http://atu.ca/3ee
>

I find it odd that the reviewer says this is likely to
become the definitive work on the subject without ever
mentioning any of the many books previously written about
it. Just for starters, Higdon, The Crime of the Century;
and of course, it got extensive treatment in Stone's
Clarence Darrow for the Defense, or even Weinberg (ed)
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned. Then there is the
slightly fictionalized Compulsion by Meyer Levin. The
omission of any reference to the body of literature in
making such a claim is surprising.


Francis A. Miniter