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“No writer better articulates ourinterest 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

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.

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PAUL COLLINS is the author of seven books, which have been

translated into ten languages. His work has appeared in

Slate, New Scientist, and the New York Times,

and he is regularly featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition as

their “literary detective.” He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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媒体评论

"[Collins’] exploration of the newspaper world, at the very

moment when tabloid values were being born, is revealing but also

enormously entertaining….Collins has a clear eye, a good sense of

telling detail, and a fine narrative ability.”—

Wall Street

Journal

“Riveting….Collins has mined enough newspaper clippings and other

archives to artfully recreate the era, the crime and the newspaper

wars it touched off.”--

New York Times

"[A] richly detailed book that reads like a novel and yet maintains

a strict fidelity to facts. THE MURDER OF THE CENTURY isn't a case

of history with a moral. It's simply a fantastic, factual yarn, and

a reminder that abhorrent violence is nothing new under the

sun."--

Oregonian

“A wonderful reminder that we have often been just as we are: fools

for spectacle, short of memory, cheered by the invigorating shock

of the immoral.”–

Willamette Week

"Paul Collins' account of the headless torso murder that led to an

all-out newspaper war and then a dramatic trial has all the

timeless elements of a great yarn--a baffling mystery,

intriguing suspects, and flawed detectives. It's compelling history

that's also great page-turning entertainment."-- Howard Blum,

author of

The Floor of Heaven

and

American

Lightning

“Wonderfully rich in period detail, salacious facts about

the case and infectious wonder at the chutzpah and inventiveness

displayed by Pulitzer’s and Hearst’s minions. Both a gripping

true-crime narrative and an astonishing portrait of fin de siecle

yellow journalism.”--

Kirkus Reviews

"A dismembered corpse and rival newspapers squabbling for headlines

fuel Collins’s intriguing look at the birth of “yellow journalism”

in late–19th-century New York.  an in-depth account of the

exponential growth of lurid news and the public’s (continuing)

insatiable appetite for it."

--Publishers Weekly

书籍介绍

“No writer better articulates ourinterest 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 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.