The Brick Slayer by Harold Schechter

40 pages first pub 2018 (editions) user-added

nonfiction crime history true crime dark medium-paced

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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 ...

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Moods

dark 66%
informative 58%
challenging 41%
tense 33%
sad 25%
emotional 16%
adventurous 8%
reflective 8%

Pace

fast 75%
medium 16%
slow 8%

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3.35

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