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

by Paul Collins

Book Overview

The "enormously entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) account of a shocking 1897 murder mystery that "artfully re-create s] the era, the crime, and the newspaper wars it touched off" (The New York Times)

AN EDGAR NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME - "Fascinating . . . won't disappoint readers in search of a book like Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City."--The Washington Post

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307592219
• ISBN13: 9780307592217
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 7.4"