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Murder Among Friends
- How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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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 enjoyable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century".
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"An absorbing saga sure to ensnare readers in its thrall."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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