Bibliograph

Unwanted, a murder mystery of the gilded age, Andrew Young

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Unwanted, a murder mystery of the gilded age, Andrew Young

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-259) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Unwanted

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

933449772

Responsibility statement

Andrew Young

Sub title

a murder mystery of the gilded age

Summary

On the foggy, cold morning of February 1, 1896, a boy came upon what he thought was a pile of clothes. It was soon discovered to be the headless body of a young woman, brutally butchered and discarded. She was found just across the river from one of the largest cities in the country, Cincinnati, Ohio. Soon the authorities, the newspapers, and the public were obsessed with discovering the girl's identity and finding the killer. Historian Andrew Young re-creates late nineteenth- century America, where Coca-Cola in bottles, newfangled movie houses, the Gibson Girl, and ragtime music played alongside prostitution, temperance, racism, homelessness, the rise of corporations, and the women's rights movement

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