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  Title

  The spider and the fly : a reporter, a serial killer, and the meaning of murder First edition.

  Author

  Rowe, Claudia, 1966-  

  Publisher:

  Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow,

  Pub date:

  [2017]

  Description:

  276 pages ;

  ISBN:

  9780062416124

  Item info:

  3 copies currently available - Gayton Library, Twin Hickory Library, and Libbie Mill Library.
  

  Number of holds:

  0

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    Gayton Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    364.1523 ROWE	1	Adult book	Adult nonfiction
    Libbie Mill Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    364.1523 ROWE	2	Adult book	Adult nonfiction
    Twin Hickory Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    364.1523 ROWE	2	Adult book	Adult nonfiction

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  The spider and the fly : a reporter, a serial killer, and the meaning of murder First edition.
  Rowe, Claudia, 1966-
  

  Personal Author:

  Rowe, Claudia, 1966-

  Title:

  The spider and the fly : a reporter, a serial killer, and the meaning of murder / Claudia Rowe.

  Edition:

  First edition.

  Publication Info:

  New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2017]

  Physical descrip:

  276 pages ; 24 cm

  Contents:

  The weight of paper -- 99 Fulton Avenue -- When night falls -- Tricks of the trade -- The final insult -- Strange town -- As if we were friends -- Close to home -- Evidence of things not seen -- Man and monster -- Solitaire -- U-turns -- Ghost story -- A day in the life -- One of our own -- The face in the mirror -- Discharged -- Epilogue.

  Summary:

  "In September 1998, young reporter Claudia Rowe was working as a stringer for the New York Times in Poughkeepsie, New York, when local police discovered the bodies of eight women stashed in the attic and basement of the small colonial home that Kendall Francois, a painfully polite twenty-seven-year-old community college student, shared with his parents and sister. Growing up amid the safe, bourgeois affluence of New York City, Rowe had always been secretly fascinated by the darkness, and soon became obsessed with the story and with Francois. She was consumed with the desire to understand just how a man could abduct and strangle eight women&#x;and how a family could live for two years, seemingly unaware, in a house with the victims' rotting corpses. She also hoped to uncover what humanity, if any, a murderer could maintain in the wake of such monstrous evil."-- Provided by publisher.

  Held by:

  GAYTON TWNHICKORY LIBBIEMILL

  Personal subject:

  Francois, Kendall, 1971-2014.

  Personal subject:

  Francois, Kendall, 1971-2014--Psychology.

  Personal subject:

  Rowe, Claudia, 1966-

  Subject term:

  Serial murderers--New York (State)--Case studies.

  Subject term:

  Serial murders--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie--Case studies.

  Genre index term:

  True crime stories. lcgft