Get a Free Audiobook Version of “The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars” from Audible.com

Jul 18 2011

Get a Free Audiobook Version of “The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars” from Audible.com

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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City Sparked the Tabloid Wars is available as a digital audiobook from Audible.com. The title, provided by AudioGO and authored by Paul Collins, has also become an American Consumer News favorite..

The digital audiobook The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City Sparked the Tabloid Wars, narrated by William Dufris, has received an average rating of 0 stars on Audible.com. The title has a running length of 9 hours and 43 min. The audiobook was first released in June 2011 and a sample is available for download.

Audible.coms description of the audiobook is 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 eras most perplexing murder. Seized upon by battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the case became a publicity circus. Re-creations of the murder were staged in Times Square, armed reporters lurked in the streets of Hells Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikely trio an anxious 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 that the police couldnt identify with certainty and that the defense claimed wasnt 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.

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