Friday, March 22, 2013

Nonfiction Recommendation from Jaclyn

THE MURDER OF THE CENTURY by Paul Collins 

This book is about a gruesome murder, the shocking trial and newspapers trying to outdo each other. Sound familiar? Like something you've seen on the news? Well, this murder took place in 1897! The newspapers were insane trying to get the best headlines (and actually started the ball rolling on solving the murder!) to sell their papers. A well written and interesting story about "The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked The Tabloid Wars"     

 - from Jaclyn

1 comment:

Suzanne Wright said...

This is going on my wish list!