Chicago: With the Chicago Tribune Articles That Inspired It

by Maurine Watkins and Maurine Dallas Watkins

Book Overview

Jake Callahan, exhalting in his great fortune at finding the story of "the most beautiful murderess," precisely characterizes Watkins's satirical take on murder and its aftermath--a view she formed while covering two similar and equally sensational murder trials for the Chicago Tribune.

Watkins opens this comic drama with a brutal dramatization of the same situation the women in her articles faced: a vengeful Roxie has slain her lover...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809321297
• ISBN13: 9780809321292
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"