The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars Audiobook

Quotes

• “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

• “[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

• “[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 (Portland, OR)

• “An in-depth account of the exponential growth of lurid news and the public’s (continuing) insatiable appetite for it.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “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 siècle yellow journalism.”

  — Kirkus Reviews