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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City And Sparked the Tabloid Wars
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Paul Collins
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Crown Pub
Publication date
June 14, 2011
Pages
325
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307592200
ISBN-10
0307592200
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.50 by 9.75 in.
Weight
1.30 lbs.
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Original list price
$26.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: âNo writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins.ââDAVE 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 eraâs 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 Hellâs Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikely trioâa hard-luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professorâall 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 couldnât identify with certainty, and who the defense claimed wasnât even dead. The Murder of the Century is a rollicking taleâa 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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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 eraâs 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 Hellâs Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikely trioâa hard-luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professorâall 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 couldnât identify with certainty, and who the defense claimed wasnât even dead. The Murder of the Century is a rollicking taleâa 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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Hardcover
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from Crown Pub (June 14, 2011)
9780307592200 | details & prices | 325 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $26.00
About: âNo writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins.
About: âNo writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins.
Paperback
from Broadway Books (April 24, 2012)
9780307592217 | details & prices | 325 pages | 5.10 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $16.00
This edition also contains The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
This edition also contains The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
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