Fiend: The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer by Harold Schechter

Fiend: The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer

Harold Schechter

320 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime dark tense medium-paced
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A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF. When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsusp...

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