Description: Murder of the Century : The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars, Paperback by Collins, Paul, ISBN 0307592219, ISBN-13 9780307592217, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives headlong into the era'smost 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 Hell's Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikely trio, a hard luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professor, all raced to solve the crime. 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 couldn't identify with certainty, and who the defense claimed wasn't even dead. This book is a tale of America during the Gilded Age and a colorful re creation of the tabloid wars that havedominated media to this day.
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Book Title: Murder of the Century : the Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
Item Length: 8in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 5.3in
Author: Paul Collins
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Murder / General, United States / 20th Century, Murder / Serial Killers, General, Journalism
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: True Crime, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Weight: 8.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
