Simon Baatz (John Jay College of Criminal Justice): For the Thrill of It. Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago. HarperCollins 2008: “Using court records and recently discovered transcripts, Baatz shows how the pathological relationship between Leopold and Loeb inexorably led to their crime” (Verlagsanzeige). Erste Rezensionen von Sarah Gold bei Chicago Trib1 und von Joseph Epstein im WSJ. Exzerpte aus Baatz’ Buch findet man bei Smithsonian Magazine unter dem schönen Titel: “Leopold and Loeb’s Criminal Minds”.
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- “But Baatz’s narrative goes off the rails much earlier. His style, which he calls ‘literary,’ relies on fictional techniques: People’s thoughts are expressed in distractingly melodramatic exclamations (‘Already past six o’clock and still no sign of Bobby!’), and we find factually dubious moments such as when Darrow’s wife, Ruby, ‘lifted herself on her elbow’ in bed to look at her husband and ‘thought he was still an adorable man.’ This lack of an objective narrative voice also prevents Baatz from acknowledging incongruities: He notes, for instance, that blood splashed on Nathan’s pants during the murder, yet on the next page he is going into the Dew Drop Inn apparently without changing his clothes.” [↩]
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