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

by Paul Collins

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"No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins."--DAVE EGGERS

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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0307592219

ISBN13:9780307592217

Release Date:April 2012

Publisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Length:336 Pages

Weight:0.49 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 8.0" x 7.4"

Related Subjects

19th Century 20th Century Crime & Criminals History Journalists Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Murder & Mayhem Professionals & Academics Serial Killers Specific Groups State & Local True Accounts True Crime

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