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COPY LINK: https://isbooktoday.com/freedom/B09NTK7VZ6 Greg King and Penny Wilson turn the original crime of the century on its head in Nothing But the Night, a riveting new exploration of the murder trial of Leopold &amp Loeb.Nearly a hundred years ago, two wealthy and privileged teenagers&#8212 Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb&#8212 were charged and convicted in a gruesome crime that would lead to the original &#8220 Trial of the Century&#8221 . Even in Jazz Age Chicago, the murder was uniquely shocking for the motive of the killers: well-to-do Jewish scions, full of promise, had killed fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks for the thrill of it. The trial was made even more sensational by the revelation of a love affair between the defendants and by defense attorney Clarence Darrow, who delivered one of the most famous defense summations of all time to save the boys from the death penalty. The story of their mad folie &#224 deux, with Loeb portrayed as the psychopathic mastermind and

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Greg King and Penny Wilson turn the original crime of the century on its head in Nothing But the Night, a riveting new exploration of the murder trial of Leopold &amp Loeb.Nearly a hundred years ago, two wealthy and privileged teenagers&#8212 Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb&#8212 were charged and convicted in a gruesome crime that would lead to the original &#8220 Trial of the Century&#8221 . Even in Jazz Age Chicago, the murder was uniquely shocking for the motive of the killers: well-to-do Jewish scions, full of promise, had killed fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks for the thrill of it. The trial was made even more sensational by the revelation of a love affair between the defendants and by defense attorney Clarence Darrow, who delivered one of the most famous defense summations of all time to save the boys from the death penalty. The story of their mad folie &#224 deux, with Loeb portrayed as the psychopathic mastermind and

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