Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago

by Gillian O'Brien

Book Overview

It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized history. The dead man, Dr. P. H. Cronin, was a respected Irish physician, but his brutal murder uncovered a web of intrigue, secrecy, and corruption that stretched across...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022624895X
• ISBN13: 9780226248950
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.3"