The Murder Of The Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized A City & Sparked The Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins

The Murder Of The Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized A City & Sparked The Tabloid Wars

Paul Collins

270 pages • first pub 2011 (editions) user-added

nonfiction crime history true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
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The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives headlong into the era's most perplexing murder. Seized upon by battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the case became a publicity circus....

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