The Mad Sculptor (50 page)

Epilogue: The Lonergan Case

1
. Raymond Chandler, “Ten Greatest Crimes of the Century,”
Cosmopolitan
, October 1948, pp. 50–53.

2
. The main works on the Lonergan case are Mel Heimer,
The Girl in Murder Flat
(New York: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1955) and Hamilton Darby Perry,
A Chair for Wayne Lonergan
(New York: Macmillan, 1971). Dominick Dunne has a lively chapter on the case in his collection
Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
(New York: Crown, 2001).

3
. Dunne,
Justice
, p. 275.

4
. Ibid., p. 273.

5
. Ibid., p. 277.

6
. Heimer,
The Girl in Murder Flat
, p. 12.

7
. Perry,
A Chair for Wayne Lonergan
, pp. 42–45.

8
. Dunne,
Justice
, pp. 281–282; Perry,
A Chair for Wayne Lonergan
, pp. 40–41, 51.

9
. Perry,
A Chair for Wayne Lonergan
, pp. 249–251; Heimer,
The Girl in Murder Flat
, pp. 23–24; Dunne,
Justice
, pp. 285–286. Lonergan was released in 1967, was deported to Canada, and lived quietly in Toronto until his death of cancer at the age
of sixty-seven on January 2, 1986. See Albin Krebbs, “Wayne Lonergan, 67, Killer of Heiress Wife,”
New York Times
, January 3, 1986, p. B5.

10
.
New York Journal-American
, October 29, 1943, p. 3. Quoted by Dunne,
Justice
, p. 272.

11
. See Jack O’Brian, “Murder Murk Hangs Over Fashionable Beekman Hill,”
Milwaukee Journal
, November 2, 1943, p. 1. The AP article was syndicated nationwide.

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