The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
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â€œNo writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins.â€â€”DAVE EGGERS
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On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects.
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The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives
headlong into the eraâ€™s most baffling murder mystery. Seized upon by battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the case became a publicity circus. Reenactments of the murder were staged in Times Square, armed reporters lurked in the streets of Hellâ€™s Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikely trioâ€”a hard-luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professorâ€”all raced to solve the crime.
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What emerged was a sensational love triangle and an even more sensational trial: an unprecedented capital case hinging on circumstantial evidence around a victim whom the police couldnâ€™t identify with certainty, and who the defense claimed wasnâ€™t even dead. The Murder of the Century is a rollicking taleâ€”a rich evocation of America during the Gilded Age and a colorful re-creation of the tabloid wars that have dominated media to this day.
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Country USA
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-06-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307592200

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2011-06-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307592200

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars

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