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Blood & ink : the scandalous jazz age double murder that hooked America on true crime / Joe Pompeo.

Pompeo, Joe, (author.).

Summary:
"Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister and his secret mistress, a Jazz Age mega-crime that propelled tabloid news in the 20th century. On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The killer had arranged the bodies in a pose conveying intimacy. The murder of Hall, a prominent clergyman whose wife, Frances Hall, was a proud heiress with illustrious ancestors and ties to the Johnson & Johnson dynasty, would have made headlines on its own. But when authorities identified Eleanor Mills as a choir singer from his church married to the church sexton, the story shocked locals and sent the scandal ricocheting around the country, fueling the nascent tabloid industry. This provincial double murder on a lonely lover's lane would soon become one of the most famous killings in American history--a veritable crime of the century. The bumbling local authorities failed to secure any indictments, however, and it took a swashbuckling crusade by the editor of a circulation-hungry Hearst tabloid to revive the case and bring it to trial at last. Blood & Ink freshly chronicles what remains one of the most electrifying but forgotten murder mysteries in U.S. history. It also traces the birth of American tabloid journalism, pandering to the masses with sordid tales of love, sex, money, and murder." publisher's website.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063001732
  • ISBN: 006300173X
  • Physical Description: 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black & white) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-329) and index.
Subject: Hall, Edward Wheeler, 1881-1922.
Mills, Eleanor Reinhardt, 1888-1922.
Hall, Frances Noel Stevens, 1874-1942.
Murder > New Jersey > 20th century.
Trials (Murder) > New Jersey > 20th century.

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  • 18 of 18 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 18 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albright Memorial Library 364.152 POMPEO (Text) 50686016219151 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 364.1523 POM (Text) 33240005150019 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Bernville Area Community Library 364.1523 POM (Text) 33249025061585 Non-fiction Available -
Bethel Tulpehocken Public Library 364.1523 POM (Text) 33249025377262 Non-fiction Available -
Cambria County Library 364.1523 P788b (Text) 85131001844613 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Frackville Free Public Library 364.152PO (Text) 30459000383382 Adult Non-fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library 364.1523 POMPEO (Text)
Endowment: GFWC of Littlestown Named Endowment, 2022
35740635878556 Nonfiction Available -
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) 921 POM (Text) 92525768 GFWM Robinson Room Available -
Guthrie Memorial Library: Hanover's Public Library Adults 364.152 POM Nonfiction (Text)
Bookplate: Plated 2022: In Memory of James T. Huston, Jr
34007002476062 Adult Area Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 364.152 Pompeo History (Text) 39427103676748 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Available -


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