Hello all, just wanted to give a few updates on both the site and Leopold-Loeb related news.
I’ve updated the podcast page: there are now 116 podcasts to choose from and I have separated the languages for convenience. In addition to English, there are also podcasts available in Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish.
Two new Leopold-Loeb books that will be published in 2022 have just gone up for pre-order on Amazon:
Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime by Candace Fleming is scheduled for release on March 29, 2022 and is aimed at readers ages 12-17.
Amazon summary:
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.
Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America by Greg King and Penny Wilson is scheduled for release on September 20, 2022 and is aimed at an adult audience.
There is no summary listed for this book yet.
If possible, I’d like to get ARCs of these books so I can review them here before publication. If not, then reviews will be posted as soon as I can after publication.
The Lives and Legends of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold 