Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime

People read all about in 1922 newspapers: two corpses deliberately posed by a murderer in a public place. The victims were married Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills, one of his congregants. The scandal broke and as investigations proceeded, a whole host of eccentric eyewitness accounts came forth and added drama to the rigmarole of the investigation of this macabre crime. Parallel and part of the story, political writer Joe Pompeo elaborates on the journalism rivalries that arose and competed to crack this jazz-age case that would become the set-up to modern day true crime media. 

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