The murder of the century : the Gilded Age crime that scandalized a city and sparked the tabloid wars / Paul Collins.
2011
HV6534.N5 C66 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
The murder of the century : the Gilded Age crime that scandalized a city and sparked the tabloid wars / Paul Collins.
Author
Collins, Paul, 1969-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780307592200 (hardcover)
0307592200
9780307592217
0307592219
0307592200
9780307592217
0307592219
Imprint
New York : Crown, ©2011.
Language
English
Description
viii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
HV6534.N5 C66 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.152/3092
Summary
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 stymied: 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's 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 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 rollicking tale -- a rich evocation of America during the Gilded Age and a colorful re creation of the tabloid wars that have dominated media to this day. - Jacket flap.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The Victim.
The mystery of the river
A detective reads the paper
The jigsaw man
The wrecking crew
Jill the Ripper
The Suspects.
The baker in Hell's Kitchen
The undertaker's neighbor
The widow's friend
The disappearing shoemaker
The silent customer
The Indictment.
A case of life and death
Heads or tails
Queen of the tombs
The high roller
Klondike Willie
The Trial.
Corpus delicti
Covered in blood
Caught in the headlight
Scythe and saw
A wonderful murder
The Verdict.
Mrs. Nack's office
The smoker to Sing Sing
A job for Smith and Jones
A story of life in New York
Carry out your own dead
The last man standing.
The mystery of the river
A detective reads the paper
The jigsaw man
The wrecking crew
Jill the Ripper
The Suspects.
The baker in Hell's Kitchen
The undertaker's neighbor
The widow's friend
The disappearing shoemaker
The silent customer
The Indictment.
A case of life and death
Heads or tails
Queen of the tombs
The high roller
Klondike Willie
The Trial.
Corpus delicti
Covered in blood
Caught in the headlight
Scythe and saw
A wonderful murder
The Verdict.
Mrs. Nack's office
The smoker to Sing Sing
A job for Smith and Jones
A story of life in New York
Carry out your own dead
The last man standing.