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Blood will out : the true story of a murder, a mystery, and a masquerade / Walter Kirn.
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- ISBN: 9780871404510 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 255 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
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| Subject: | Gerhartsreiter, Christian, 1961- Kirn, Walter, 1962- Impostors and imposture > United States > Case studies. Murderers > United States > Case studies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 364.1523092 Gerha-K | 31681002557387 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Describes the author's fifteen-year relationship with eccentric New Yorker Clark Rockefeller, his discovery that Rockefeller was a serial imposter and murderer, and how his old friend's murder trial made him face hard truths about himself. - Baker & Taylor
The true story of a young novelist who meets and befriends an eccentric, privileged New Yorker when he delivers a crippled hunting dog to him from an animal shelter, and later discovers that his friend was a serial imposter and brutal double-murderer. - WW Norton
SlateSan Francisco ChronicleAmazonBookPageUSA TodayIn Cold Blood - WW Norton
Kirn's one-of-a-kind story of being duped by a real-life Mr. Ripley takes us on a bizarre and haunting journey from the posh private clubrooms of Manhattan to the hard-boiled courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles. As Kirn uncovers the truth about his friend, a psychopath masquerading as a gentleman, he also confronts hard truths about himself. Why, as a writer of fiction, was he susceptible to the deception of a sinister fantasist whose crimes, Kirn learns, were based on books and movies? What are the hidden psychological links between the artist and the con man? To answer these and other questions, Kirn attends his old friendâs murder trial and uses it as an occasion to reflect on both their tangled personal relationship and the surprising literary sources of Rockefeller's evil. This investigation of the past climaxes in a tense jailhouse reunion with a man whom Kirn realizes he barely knewâa predatory, sophisticated genius whose life, in some respects, parallels his own and who may have intended to take another victim during his years as a fugitive from justice: Kirn himself.Blood Will Out
