The Resource Fiend

Fiend

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Fiend
Title
Fiend
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Summary
A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING — AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF. When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree — the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime — were as relevant in the so-called Age of Innocence as they are today. Jesse Pomeroy was outwardly repellent in appearance, with a gruesome "dead" eye; inside, he was deformed beyond imagining. A sexual sadist of disturbing precocity, he satisfied his atrocious appetites by abducting and torturing his child victims. But soon, the teenager's bloodlust gave way to another obsession: murder. Harold Schechter, whose true-crime masterpieces are "well-documented nightmares for anyone who dares to look" (Peoria Journal Star), brings his acclaimed mix of page-turning storytelling, brilliant insight, and fascinating historical documentation to Fiend — an unforgettable account from the annals of American crime
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Schechter, Harold
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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  • Biography & Autobiography
  • True Crime
  • Nonfiction
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Fiend
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Publication
Control code
OVERDRIVE:cfb13ee8-f874-4713-87d6-9ebe4958d0fb
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
Form of item
electronic
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True
Isbn
9781476729138
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True
Specific material designation
optical disk
Label
Fiend
Publication
Control code
OVERDRIVE:cfb13ee8-f874-4713-87d6-9ebe4958d0fb
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
Form of item
electronic
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True
Isbn
9781476729138
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True
Specific material designation
optical disk

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