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2) The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
The “enormously entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) account of a shocking 1897 murder mystery that “artfully re-create[s] the era, the crime, and the newspaper wars it touched off” (The New York Times)
AN EDGAR NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME • “Fascinating . . . won’t disappoint readers in search of a book like Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City.”—The...
AN EDGAR NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME • “Fascinating . . . won’t disappoint readers in search of a book like Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City.”—The...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Traces the scandalous murder of a Harvard Medical School graduate and the ensuing trial that riveted mid-nineteenth-century America, exploring how the case established important precedents in medical forensics and the definition of reasonable doubt.
Author
Series
Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, by special arrangement with Amazon Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Looming large in the popular imagination as a serious poet and lively drunk who died in penury, Edgar Allan Poe was also the most celebrated and notorious writer of his day. He died broke and alone at the age of forty, but not before he had written some of the greatest works in the English language, from the chilling "The Tell-Tale Heart" to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"--the first modern detective story--to the iconic poem "The Raven." Poe's life...
16) Tricksters
Author
Series
Publisher
Sundance
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
