Dick Harpootlian Author Event
Fri, Dec 19
|The Garden District Book Shop
The Garden District Book is thrilled to be hosting Dick Harpootlian on December 19.


Time & Location
Dec 19, 2025, 5:00 PM
The Garden District Book Shop, 2727 Prytania St Ste 8, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA
About the event
The Garden District Book Shop is pleased to welcome author, attorney, and civil litigator Dick Harpootlian, on December 19 to launch his book Dig Me a Grave.
The event will take place at 5PM at the Garden District Book Shop.
The definitive true “Southern Gothic” account of the life, crimes, conviction, and execution of Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins, the charismatic, brutal, well-liked, remorseless South Carolina serial killer who was dubbed the Charles Manson of the South—written by the prosecutor who brought him to justice.
Of the hundreds of murder cases that noted South Carolina attorney Dick Harpootlian has prosecuted, one in particular haunts him. Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins was a serial killer and rapist, a master manipulator who claimed to have killed over 100 people and is known to have murdered over a dozen, including a toddler, and his own teenage niece. Yet it was on Death Row that he…
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