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Blood & ink the scandalous jazz age double murder that hooked America on true crime

"Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister and his secret mistress, a Jazz Age mega-crime that propelled tabloid news in the 20th century. On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabappl...

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Main Author: Pompeo, Joe (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.
Edition:First William Morrow paperback edition.
Subjects:
Hall, Edward Wheeler, > 1881-1922.
Mills, Eleanor Reinhardt, > 1888-1922.
Hall, Frances Noel Stevens, > 1874-1942.
Murder > New Jersey > 20th century.
Trials (Murder) > New Jersey > 20th century.
True crime stories.
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Table of Contents:
  • The crabapple tree
  • The heiress
  • The tabloid editor
  • The Reverend
  • The choir singer
  • "Hark! Hark, my soul!"
  • "Billy goat! Billy goat!"
  • The flapper
  • The sideshow
  • "House of mystery"
  • The pig woman
  • Meet the press
  • The grand jury
  • Madame Astra
  • "A new, mongrel fourth estate"
  • "Investigation A"
  • "A tissue of disgusting lies!"
  • The arrests
  • Trial of the century
  • "I have told them the truth, so help me God!"
  • "A sort of genius"
  • The verdict
  • Old Glory
  • And then there were none
  • A room with a view.

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