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The murder of the century the gilded age crime that scandalized a city & sparked the tabloid wars

In Long Island, a farmer found a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discovered a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumbled upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. The grisly finds that began on t...

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Main Author: Collins, Paul, 1969- (Author)
Corporate Authors: AudioGO (Firm)
Other Authors: Dufris, William (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: North Kingstown, RI : AudioGO, [2011], ℗2011.
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Nack, Augusta.
Murder > New York (State) > New York > Case studies.
Crimes of passion > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century > Case studies.
Tabloid newspapers > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 19th century.
Audiobooks.
Summary: In Long Island, a farmer found a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discovered a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumbled upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives headlong into the era's most perplexing murder.
Item Description: Compact discs.
Title from disc label.
"Sound Library"--Container.
In container (17 cm.).
Duration: 9:43:00.
Physical Description: 8 audio discs (9 hr., 43 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9780792778479
0792778472
9781609983383
1609983386
Author Notes: Paul Collins is a writer specializing in history, memoir, and unusual antiquarian literature. His nine books have been translated into eleven languages, and include Not Even Wrong: A Father's Journey Into the Lost History of Autism (2004), and The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars (2011). He is a 2009 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction.

In 2014, his non-fiction work (Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery) was listed on the New York Times bestseller list. Collins also teaches creative nonfiction as an associate professor in the MFA program at Portland State University.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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