Bob Dekle: Research for Nonfiction

If you missed this talk, you can read a summary of the talk on Bob Dekle’s blog.

On Sunday, January 10, George R. (Bob) Dekle, Sr., will discuss the process he uses for writing and researching nonfiction accounts of historic trials. The template for his talk will be a book in pre-publication with Kent State University Press: Old Shakespeare and the East River Ripper: A Gilded Age Mystery,

The book tells the story of a Jack-the-Ripper style murder in a New York City brothel investigated by the “American Sherlock Holmes” and prosecuted by New York’s greatest Assistant District Attorney. The case was beset with issues of classism, racism, illegal immigration, police corruption, agenda-driven journalism, and questions of false conviction. The author attempts to sort through the morass of conflicting claims to find the truth.

Dekle served for two years as an assistant public defender and thirty years as a prosecutor, handling dozens of homicide cases.

His last-published book, Six Capsules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts, was awarded a Gold Medal by the Florida Authors and Publishers Association and Silver Medals by the Independent Publishers Association Book Awards and Royal Palm Literary Awards of the Florida Writers Association, all in nonfiction categories.

Dekle is the author of many other books including The Last Murder: The Investigation, Prosecution, and Execution of Ted Bundy and Prairie Defender: The Murder Trials of Abraham Lincoln (winner of a scholarship award from the Illinois Historical Society and Gold and Silver Medals from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association in nonfiction categories). He has also coauthored other books including The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case: A Critique of the Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann.

For a more complete list of Dekle’s books, check out his Authors Guild page.

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