{"product_id":"9781542041829","title":"Ripped from the Headlines! : The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes","description":"\u003cp\u003eBestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy; Chicago's Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the high school horrors committed by the costumed slasher in Scream. These and other cinematic crimes have become part of pop-culture history. And each found inspiration in true events that provided the raw material for our greatest blockbusters, indie art films, black comedies, Hollywood classics, and grindhouse horrors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo what's the reality behind Psycho, Badlands, The Hills Have Eyes, A Place in the Sun, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Dirty Harry? How did such tabloid-ready killers as Bonnie and Clyde, body snatchers Burke and Hare, Texas sniper Charles Whitman Jr., nurse-slayer Richard Speck, and Leopold and Loeb exert their power on the public imagination and become the stuff of movie lore?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of revelatory essays, true-crime historian Harold Schechter takes a fascinating trip down the crossroads of fact and fiction to reveal the sensational real-life stories that are more shocking, taboo, and fantastic than even the most imaginative screenwriter can dream up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little A","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42881954349131,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":457.71,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.co.th\/products\/9781542041829","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Thailand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}