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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
?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. Bl...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780307592217
ISBN-10: 0307592219
Publication Date: 6/5/2012
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Broadway
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, 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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