Blood & Ink
The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 368
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780063001749
- Utgivelsesår: 2023
- Bidragsyter: Pompeo, Joe
New York Times Editor''s Pick &Best True Crime of 2022
“Blood & Ink is among 2022’s best works of true crime.” —Washington Post
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 chu