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Compulsion

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Compulsion

By: Meyer Levin
Narrated by: Chris O'Brien
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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.

©1956 Meyer Levin (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Genre Fiction Mystery Psychological
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Hadn't realised until the end that this was written in 1956. We really were that homophobic and focused on crazy psychoanalytic theories back then.

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