The Mail Order Serial Killer: The Life and Death of Harry Powers

McLaughlin

ISBN 10: 0615480128 / ISBN 13: 9780615480121

Published by Post Mortem Press, 2011

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New, Text is Bright Crisp & new. Light wear to cover from storage. Looks excellent! Rare / Scarce Room 6-3 306 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0615480128. ISBN/EAN: 9780615480121. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561059197.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mail Order Serial Killer: The Life and Death of Harry Powers
• Publisher: Post Mortem Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615480128
• ISBN 13: 9780615480121
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

In the 1955 film The Night of the Hunter, greedy self-ordained minister, Reverend Harry Powell, portrayed by Robert Mitchum, kills women and terrorizes children. The hackneyed expression that truth is stranger than fiction, in this case, is not hyperbole. On a small farm in Quiet Dell, eight miles southeast of Clarksburg, West Virginia, two middle-aged women and three children were starved and murdered in the summer of 1931. The five bodies recovered were only intended to be a beginning. Others were scheduled for the abattoir. Meet Harry Powers, also known as Bluebeard, Mail Order Romeo/Don Juan, Slaughterhouse Harry, Human Tarantula, and Love Racketeer, one of the most enigmatic and until now, unstudied, sociopaths of the 20th century.