When I saw the cover of
The Mad Sculptor: the maniac, the model and the murder that shook a nation I thought it would be like
The Devil in the White City or
The Monster of Florence but it wasn't. That was totally my fault. The author,
Harold Schechter has been writing true-crime books for a very long time and he is true to his craft and does a great job at it. I was just hoping for something more.
I had never heard of this crime, even though it is listed on
Raymond Chandler's 1948 list of most memorable crimes of the century. This is the story of
Robert George Irwin, a guy with some serious psychological problems. If you want a good true-crime book, this is a good one, but it's not like DIWC or TMOF.
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