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

by Paul Collins

Book Overview

"No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins."--DAVE EGGERS

On 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307592219
• ISBN13: 9780307592217
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 7.4"