Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780593177426)

How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century."

In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping and murdering a child they both knew. But they made one crucial error: as they were disposing of the body of young Bobby Franks, whom they had bludgeoned to death, Nathan's eyeglasses fell from his jacket pocket.

Multi-award-winning author Candace Fleming depicts every twist and turn of this harrowing case--how two wealthy, brilliant young men planned and committed what became known as the crime of the century, how they were caught, why they confessed, and how the renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow enabled them to avoid the death penalty.

Following on the success of such books as The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh and The Family Romanov, this acclaimed nonfiction writer brings to heart-stopping life one of the most notorious crimes in our country's history.

Author: Candace Fleming
ISBN-10: 0593177428
ISBN-13: 9780593177426
Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2022
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 01/31/2022
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2022
Booklist 02/15/2022 pg. 43
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2022
School Library Journal 05/01/2022 pg. 92