03348cam a2200373 i 4500 608144494 TxAuBib 20221026120000.0 220225s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063001732 hardcover 006300173X hardcover (OCoLC)1299298234 TxAuBib rda Pompeo, Joe,. Blood & Ink : The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder that Hooked America on True Crime / Joe Pompeo. Blood and Ink. First edition. New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] ©2022. 344 pages : 16 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 24cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-329) and index. The crabapple tree -- The heiress -- The tabloid editor -- The Reverend -- The choir singer -- "Hark! Hark, my soul!" -- "Billy goat! Billy goat!" -- The flapper -- The sideshow -- "House of mystery" -- The pig woman -- Meet the press -- The grand jury -- Madame Astra -- "A new, mongrel fourth estate" -- "Investigation A" -- "A tissue of disgusting lies!" -- The arrests -- Trial of the century -- "I have told them the truth, so help me God!" -- "A sort of genius" -- The verdict -- Old Glory -- And then there were none -- A room with a view. "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. 20221026. Hall, Edward Wheeler, 1881-1922. Mills, Eleanor Reinhardt, 1887 or 1888-1922. Hall, Frances Noel Stevens, 1874-1942. Murder New Jersey 20th century. Trials (Murder) New Jersey 20th century. TXGID