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  • Written by: Harold Schechter
  • Narrated by: Steven Weber
  • Length: 58 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (21 ratings)

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The Brick Slayer

Written by: Harold Schechter
Narrated by: Steven Weber
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Publisher's Summary

A series of brutal home invasions terrified Los Angeles in 1937. They ended in Chicago a year later with the arrest of African American teenager Robert Nixon, igniting racial tensions in an already appallingly divided city.

Tortured in custody and portrayed by the press in the most lurid and flagrantly racist terms, Nixon faced an all-white jury. It would be the fastest conviction in the history of Cook County. Used as inspiration for Richard Wright’s classic social protest novel, Native Son, the case against Nixon is a still-relevant examination of bigotry, suppressed rage, and the making of a murderer.

The Brick Slayer is part of Bloodlands, a chilling collection of short addictive historical narratives from bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter. Spanning a century in our nation’s murderous past, Schechter resurrects nearly forgotten tales of madmen and thrill-killers that dominated the most sensational headlines of their day.

©2018 Harold Schechter (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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Another Schechter classic

A great and compelling story that fits in perfectly to it’s time frame. Fascinating true crime and analysis of the surrounding environment.

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