Blood & ink : the scandalous jazz age double murder that hooked America on true crime / Joe Pompeo.
"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]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-329) and index. |
Search for related items by subject
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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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)
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GFWC of Littlestown Named Endowment, 2022
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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)
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Plated 2022: In Memory of James T. Huston, Jr
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34007002476062 | Adult Area | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | 364.152 Pompeo History (Text) | 39427103676748 | Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |