num_pages: 412
description: The basis of the award-winning film starring Orson Welles, Compulsion gives a shocking fictionalized account of the Leopold-Loeb murder case--in which two young graduates of the University of Chicago kidnapped and killed a child for the intellectual challenge. "A graphic and absorbing reconstruction of an infamous crime."--Saturday Review.
language: English
title: Compulsion
titlecomplete: Compulsion
genres: True Crime, Crime, Classics, Americana, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, The United States Of America, Mystery
ratings_count: 1388
places: Chicago, Illinois
publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub