The lone murderer, caught in a web of neurotic fantasy, is a familiar figure in the annals of crime. But when two people deliberately join forces in the terrible act of killing, we are faced with a rarer phenomenon. How did they meet? What secret traits did they recognize in each other? What strange intimacies led them to form a partnership of murder?Leopold and Loeb shared an arrogant intellectual life; Bonnie and Clyde were defiant outlaws; Evie Paron and her colonel husband lusted after power and money.PARTNERS IN CRIME tells the stories of infamous couples and explores the emotions that drove them to the ultimate crime.
