Editing Harold Schechter (section)

== Praise ==
''Publishers Weekly'' has called Schechter a "serial killer expert", a "deft writer", praising his ability to recreate "from documentation the thoughts and perspectives of long-dead figures." ''PW'' called Schechter's book ''The Devil's Gentleman'' "a riveting tale of murder, seduction and tabloid journalism run rampant in New York not so different from today".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-345-47679-1|publisher=Publishers Weekly|title=Nonfiction Book Review: The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century}}</ref>

Booklist called his book ''Depraved'' a "first-rate true crime and first-rate popular history."
Writing in the ''New York Times'' reviewer James Polk praised ''Nevermore'', the first in Schechter's Poe mystery series, for its "entertaining premise . . . supported by rich period atmospherics."