The girls of Murder City : fame, lust, and the beautiful killers who inspired Chicago
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New York : Viking, [2010].
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xi, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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Published
New York : Viking, [2010].
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-295) and index.
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Maurine Watkins, a girl reporter with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s, was the first to cover the sensational story of two Jazz Age women who killed their men with the insouciance they gave to filing their nails or rolling their stockings. Decades later, Bob Fosse made the pair of stylish killers internationally famous through his hit musical Chicago. In this account, journalist Perry illuminates both the murderesses who held court at Cook County Jail and the newspapers writers who showcased them. This is as much a book about journalism and social history as it is about crime. Perry re-creates the world of Front Page with vivid details from the era, including the workings of the Linotype machine, which allowed papers to expand from only a few pages in the late nineteenth century to several multipage editions a day. In Chicago, six papers engaged in vicious competition. At the center of the fray were the headling-grabbing stories, often concerning crime-and especially women committing murder, a phenomenon that increased 400 percent in 40 years. We follow shy Maurine Watkins, who left graduate school in classics at Radcliffe, as she is hired by the Tribune on a fluke and then goes on to get in-depth interviews and complete trial coverage of Beautiful Beulah Annan and Stylish Belva Gaertner, the models for Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Perry, D. (2010). The girls of Murder City: fame, lust, and the beautiful killers who inspired Chicago . Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Perry, Douglas, 1968-. 2010. The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago. Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Perry, Douglas, 1968-. The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago Viking, 2010.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Perry, Douglas. The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago Viking, 2010.
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