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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