The Murder of the Century by Paul Collins

The Murder of the Century by Paul Collins

No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins.--DAVE EGERS

On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled: There are 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 baffling murder mystery. Seized upon by battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the case became a publicity circus. Reenactments of the murder were staged in Times Square, armed reporters lurked in the streets of Hell's Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikely trio--a hard-luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professor--all raced to solve the crime.

What emerged was a sensational love triangle and an even more sensational trial: an unprecedented capital case hinging on circumstantial evidence around a victim whom the police couldn't identify with certainty, and who the defense claimed wasn't even dead. The Murder of the Century is a rollicking tale--a rich evocation of America during the Gilded Age and a colorful re-creation of the tabloid wars that have dominated media to this day.

Collins, Paul: - Paul Collins is a linguaphile and a writer who has spent a lifetime learning about languages and their origins. He grew up in the Australian Outback where he would often accompany his father on his many trips to the interior. There, Paul found a fascination for the Aboriginal tribes that inhabited parts of the land the languages they spoke. This allure led Paul to study languages at university and then saw him undertake a trip to the Amazonian rainforest, where he worked for a year before going on to study some of the Pacific Islands myriad dialects. While he still works full time, Paul also writes books that help people to understand and learn a new language, with an approach that is based on making what is taught easy to learn with no unnecessary complications. It is a style which has gained him many plaudits and recognition from the many who have already taken up his courses. In his free time Paul still loves travelling above all else. He is happiest when he is in a place where the language provides a barrier to most and where he can immerse himself in the food and culture of the people who live there. Paul also enjoys the simple things in life, like watching documentaries, listening to classical music or taking a walk in the countryside. He lives just outside of Brisbane, with his wife and takes every opportunity he can to get to the beach or into the wide open spaces of the interior.

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ISBN 13	9780307592217
ISBN 10	0307592219
Titre	The Murder of the Century
Auteur	Paul Collins
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Année de publication	2012-04-24
Nombre de pages	336
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