Fiendishly Fantastic!

This is one of the most captivating "true crime" books I've ever read. It details the life and sorry times of 19th Century Boston "Boy Fiend" Jesse Pomeroy, a strange youngster who got sexual kicks from torturing and killing children. Harold does an exceptional job at replaying the events leading up to Jesse's arrest and life imprisonment. Just the thought that there were monsters like Jesse roaming the streets in 1872 makes life much more interesting, don't you think? If I were a filmmaker, I'd jump all over this story!

Exceptionally well researched, riveting, yet oddly editorialized "true crime" biography

Harold Schechter has written a very detailed and well researched accounting of the "youngest" serial killer in U.S. history. However, it is unfortunate that 126 years after the events of this book took place, Mr. Schechter editorializes in such a manner as to sympathize with the murderer.

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I think this is one of his best books I could not put it down