![]() ![]() The result is a riveting tale of murder, seduction and tabloid journalism run rampant in a New York not so different from today's. Davy Crockett meets Edgar Allan Poeand together they set out in search of Baltimore’s 1830s equivalent of John Wayne Gacy: a gothic thriller (and first hardcover fiction) from Schechter (Depraved: The Shocking Story of America’s First Serial Killer, 1994, etc.) Poe, known today mainly as macabre poet and storyteller, was in fact one of the most feared literary critics of the 19th. Schechter expertly weaves a rich historical tapestry-exploring everything from the birth of “yellow” journalism to the history of poison as a murder weapon-without sacrificing a novelistic sense of character, pacing and suspense. ![]() The ensuing investigation and sensational trial became one of the costliest in New York State history. But when one of Molineux's romantic competitors, Henry Barnet, died, Cornish was poisoned (he survived) and his landlady died, Roland topped the list of suspects. Pursuing women with the same determination he brought to sports, Roland doggedly wooed Blanche Chesebrough, an equally ambitious young woman with operatic aspirations. Roland Molineux, a socially ambitious chemist,was a proud member of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club, where he was considered a talented but snooty sportsman, repeatedly instigating spats with the club's athletic director, Harry Cornish. ) delivers a thrilling account of a murder case that rocked Manhattan at the turn of the 20th century. True-crime historian Schechter (co-author, The A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers ![]()
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