The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York by Patricia Cline Cohen

The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York

Patricia Cline Cohen

512 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime mysterious medium-paced
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In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to re...

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