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000732426 1001_ $$aCollins, Paul,$$d1969-
000732426 24514 $$aThe murder of the century :$$bthe Gilded Age crime that scandalized a city and sparked the tabloid wars /$$cPaul Collins.
000732426 250__ $$a1st ed.
000732426 260__ $$aNew York :$$bCrown,$$c©2011.
000732426 300__ $$aviii, 325 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c25 cm
000732426 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent
000732426 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
000732426 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier
000732426 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000732426 5050_ $$aThe Victim. -- The mystery of the river -- A detective reads the paper -- The jigsaw man -- The wrecking crew -- Jill the Ripper -- The Suspects. -- The baker in Hell's Kitchen -- The undertaker's neighbor -- The widow's friend -- The disappearing shoemaker -- The silent customer -- The Indictment. -- A case of life and death -- Heads or tails -- Queen of the tombs -- The high roller -- Klondike Willie -- The Trial. -- Corpus delicti -- Covered in blood -- Caught in the headlight -- Scythe and saw -- A wonderful murder -- The Verdict. -- Mrs. Nack's office -- The smoker to Sing Sing -- A job for Smith and Jones -- A story of life in New York -- Carry out your own dead -- The last man standing.
000732426 520__ $$aOn 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.
000732426 60010 $$aNack, Augusta.
000732426 650_0 $$aMurder$$zNew York (State)$$zNew York$$vCase studies.
000732426 650_0 $$aCrimes of passion$$zNew York (State)$$zNew York$$vCase studies.
000732426 650_0 $$aTabloid newspapers$$zNew York (State)$$zNew York$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000732426 651_0 $$aNew York (N.Y.)$$xHistory$$y19th century.
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