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The Murder of the Century
- The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
- By: Paul Collins
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 1,415
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,190
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 1,190
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. Clues to a horrifying crime were turning up all over New York, but the police were baffled: There were no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives headlong into the era's most perplexing murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great look at NYC crime, forensics, and journalism
- By deborah on 11-04-11
- The Murder of the Century
- The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
- By: Paul Collins
- Narrated by: William Dufris
Murder of the Century
Reviewed: 10-19-16
I had to read this book for an American History college class. I could not seem to get much into the book. There were parts of it that were interesting, but there was so much going on, it just didn't catch my attention much. This is the reason why I bought the audiobook. I bought it so reading this book wouldn't be such a struggle. It is present that Collins did put a lot of work into writing this book though.
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