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The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago

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Availability:In StockContributor:Douglas PerryAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2011-07-26Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143119227ISBN-10:143119222UPC:9780143119227Book Category:True Crime, HistoryBook Subcategory:Murder, United StatesBook Topic:State & Local, 20th CenturySize:8.04 x 5.83 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCKT80YKAA

The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago

With a thrilling, fast-paced narrative, award-winning journalist Douglas Perry vividly captures the sensationalized circus atmosphere that gave rise to the concept of the celebrity criminal- and gave Chicago its most famous story. The Girls of Murder City recounts two scandalous, sex-fueled murder cases and how an intrepid "girl reporter" named Maurine Watkins turned the beautiful, media-savvy...
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143119227ISBN-10:143119222UPC:9780143119227Book Category:True Crime, HistoryBook Subcategory:Murder, United StatesBook Topic:State & Local, 20th CenturySize:8.04 x 5.83 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCKT80YKAA
DOUGLAS PERRY is an award-winning writer and editor whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The San Jose Mercury News, Details, and The Oregonian. He is the online features editor at The Oregonian and the co-author of The Sixteenth Minute: Life in the Aftermath of Fame. He lives in Portland, Oregon.


Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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Douglas Perry

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