The spider and the fly: a reporter, a serial killer, and the meaning of murder
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"In September 1998, young reporter Claudia Rowe was working as a stringer for the New York Times in Poughkeepsie, New York, when local police discovered the bodies of eight women stashed in the attic and basement of the small colonial home that Kendall Francois, a painfully polite twenty-seven-year-old community college student, shared with his parents and sister. Growing up amid the safe, bourgeois affluence of New York City, Rowe had always been secretly fascinated by the darkness, and soon became obsessed with the story and with Francois. She was consumed with the desire to understand just how a man could abduct and strangle eight women and how a family could live for two years, seemingly unaware, in a house with the victims' rotting corpses. She also hoped to uncover what humanity, if any, a murderer could maintain in the wake of such monstrous evil."--
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Rowe, C. (2017). The spider and the fly: a reporter, a serial killer, and the meaning of murder. First edition. HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Rowe, Claudia, 1966-. 2017. The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder. HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Rowe, Claudia, 1966-, The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder. HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Rowe, Claudia. The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder. First edition. HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
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| 505 | 0 | |a The weight of paper -- 99 Fulton Avenue -- When night falls -- Tricks of the trade -- The final insult -- Strange town -- As if we were friends -- Close to home -- Evidence of things not seen -- Man and monster -- Solitaire -- U-turns -- Ghost story -- A day in the life -- One of our own -- The face in the mirror -- Discharged -- Epilogue. | |
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