Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties FIC003000 ISBN10: 0062506110

ISBN10: 0062506110

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Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties FIC003000 ISBN10: 0062506110Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else. So begins a chapter of Michael Lesy's disturbingly satisfying account of Chicago in the 1920s, the epicenter of Murder in America. Just as Lesy's first book, Wisconsin Death Trip, subverted the accepted notion of the Gay Nineties, so Murder City exposes the dark side of the Jazz Age. Revisiting seventeen Chicago murder cases including that of Belva and Beulah, two murderesses whose trials