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True Crime: Lesser-Known Cases

The Murder of the Century (2011) (edit title/settings)

The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars

by Paul Collins (Author) (edit contributors)

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“No writer better articulates our interest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins.”—DAVE EGGERS   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... read more

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This book is in True Crime: Lesser-Known Cases. (standard series)

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Publication Date: 2011
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Page Count: 366

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