Zero at the Bone: The Playboy, the Prostitute, and the Murder of Bobby Greenlease - Couverture rigide

Heidenry, John

 
9780312376796: Zero at the Bone: The Playboy, the Prostitute, and the Murder of Bobby Greenlease
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ISBN 10 : 0312376790 ISBN 13 : 9780312376796
Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2009

Synopsis

In this riveting account, John Heidenry crafts a haunting narrative of the 1953 kidnapping and murder of Bobby Greenlease by two grifiters. Bobby, son of Robert Greenlease, a wealthy automobile dealer, turned up in a geranium patch with a bullet in his head after the $600,000 ransom - the highest U.S. ransom ever paid up to that point - was met. The kidnappers were Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Heady. Hall inherited $200,000 at the end of WWII, losing it all in six years, and spent more than a year in the Missouri State prison. After his release he met Heady, an alcoholic supporting herself as a prostitute. When they met it was like rubbing two flints together. Little did they know that mobster Joe Costello would steal half the ransom and that they would both be executed, strapped together in the gas chamber. Like a combination of "True Confessions" and the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey, John Heidenry has written a story of grifters and stalwart citizens of the American heartland that has all the lurid detail of the greatest film noir classics.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In this riveting account, John Heidenry crafts a haunting narrative of the 1953 kidnapping and murder of Bobby Greenlease by two grifiters. Bobby, son of Robert Greenlease, a wealthy automobile dealer, turned up in a geranium patch with a bullet in his head after the $600,000 ransom - the highest U.S. ransom ever paid up to that point - was met. The kidnappers were Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Heady. Hall inherited $200,000 at the end of WWII, losing it all in six years, and spent more than a year in the Missouri State prison. After his release he met Heady, an alcoholic supporting herself as a prostitute. When they met it was like rubbing two flints together. Little did they know that mobster Joe Costello would steal half the ransom and that they would both be executed, strapped together in the gas chamber. Like a combination of "True Confessions" and the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey, John Heidenry has written a story of grifters and stalwart citizens of the American heartland that has all the lurid detail of the greatest film noir classics.

Revue de presse

"Heidenry delivers a lean, mean account of an infamous 1953 kidnapping & murder....Harsh, chilling, lurid and gripping." --Kirkus Reviews

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Éditeur
St Martin's Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0312376790
ISBN 13 
9780312376796
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780312641962: Zero at the Bone: The Playboy, the Prostitute, and the Murder of Bobby Greenlease

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0312641966 ISBN 13 :  9780312641962
Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2010
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