The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars

by Paul Collins

Book Overview

Collins recounts how a grisly discovery in 1897 New York 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307592200
• ISBN13: 9780307592200
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"