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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
The Murder of the Century The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City Sparked the Tabloid Wars
Author: Paul Collins
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 b...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780307592200
ISBN-10: 0307592200
Publication Date: 6/14/2011
Pages: 336
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3.2 stars, based on 12 ratings
Publisher: Crown
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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pakate avatar reviewed The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars on + 3 more book reviews
This is a very interesting look into how murder investigation was handled at the turn of the century and how the media had an unlimited access to the crime.
reviewed The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars on + 6 more book reviews
Fun real detective story. Hard to believe the way crime was investigated back then. Could have used some editing when the author went into too much detail.


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