For the Thrill of It

Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago

By: Simon Baatz

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals - too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended, state's attorney Robert Crowe was certain that no defense could save the ruthless killers from the gallows. But the families of the confessed murderers hired Clarence Darrow, entrusting the lives of their sons to the most famous lawyer in America in what would be one of the most sensational criminal trials in the history of American justice.

Set against the backdrop of the 1920s - a time of prosperity, self-indulgence, and hedonistic excess in a lawless city on the brink of anarchy - For the Thrill of It draws the listener into a world of speakeasies and flappers, of gangsters and gin parties, with a spellbinding narrative of Jazz Age murder and mystery.

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Lot of unnecessary filler

More background and irrelevant information on participants than on crime and criminals themselves. Very boring.

A Bit Drug Out

Already aware of plot but you had to be a medical student or professor to get thru it!

Great book, awful narrator

It's so hard to choose a Worst Audiobook Reader Ever award recipient, because there are seemingly infinite ways to be terrible at it. This guy, though..... this guy's special. I'm actually really worried about him. Does anyone know if he's ok? There's no way this.... um... performance(?) didn't injure him seriously. And there's no way he could digest all the scenery he chewed. There's a very distressing combination of over-enunciating AND over-salivating. I don't even enjoy this much spit-sucking in porn. One does feel one needs an umbrella. Really though, is he alright? It sounds like he's horribly straining every part of himself.

Read by a robot

This thing sounded like it was unedited text to speech. Avoid. Not worth the money.

Too Much Detail

The deranged aren’t worth a twenty hour. Netflix is brimming with all this type of sociopathy porn It is uninteresting and insignificant.