Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked a Nation on True Crime
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- Create Date：2022-09-11 00:19:37
- Update Date：2025-09-07
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- Author：Joe Pompeo
- ISBN：006300173X
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Reviews
Mardi
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[Review of uncorrected page proofs from NetGalley。 Index & images not seen。]I feel sure if I'd seen a hot-off-the-presses print copy of this title， I'd be giving it 5 stars。 Some galleys come with images but this one did not and I missed， never having been to New Jersey unless we're counting the airport， having a map of the area where the murders took place and where the Halls and Mills lived as well as some grainy 100 year-old crime scene photos。 Quite possibly， I am being stingy and should giv [Review of uncorrected page proofs from NetGalley。 Index & images not seen。]I feel sure if I'd seen a hot-off-the-presses print copy of this title， I'd be giving it 5 stars。 Some galleys come with images but this one did not and I missed， never having been to New Jersey unless we're counting the airport， having a map of the area where the murders took place and where the Halls and Mills lived as well as some grainy 100 year-old crime scene photos。 Quite possibly， I am being stingy and should give Pompeo that fifth star just for the exhaustive research he put into this book。 He's done far more work putting this book together than any law enforcement officer ever did actually investigating the murders of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills。 In addition to probably giving himself asthma digging through decades of police reports and witness statements， the Vanity Fair writer has also produced a riveting history of the birth of tabloid reporting in the U。S。 as well as the daring reporters， editors， and big time players （Hearst et al。） who pushed them to bring in the most sensational stories。Please don't let my use of the words "research" and "history" lead you to believe this book is a dry read by any means。 William Shakespeare would have been proud to have created this cast of characters。 I could probably be persuaded to read a whole book just about Jane Gibson。 This book will appeal to both true crime fans and history buffs alike。 。。。more
E K
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This book was absolutely terrific。 Joe Pompeo is the senior media correspondent for Vanity Fair。 He has written an array of excellent articles for a wide variety of publications。 This is his first book。 I was primed to find it a hard slog。 Reading about media history is not my favorite and I am so familiar with this unsolved case that I expected to be very bored。 Worst of all， I would be reading a galley on a laptop。 But no， it is a humdinger that races you along far into the night robbing you o This book was absolutely terrific。 Joe Pompeo is the senior media correspondent for Vanity Fair。 He has written an array of excellent articles for a wide variety of publications。 This is his first book。 I was primed to find it a hard slog。 Reading about media history is not my favorite and I am so familiar with this unsolved case that I expected to be very bored。 Worst of all， I would be reading a galley on a laptop。 But no， it is a humdinger that races you along far into the night robbing you of sleep。 The Hall Mills murder is definitely the dark side but makes a really appropriate case study for the evolution of tabloids and sensationalist media。 For me the greatest value of the book may be that it illuminates how we arrived at the state of distrust in the Fourth Estate （fake news anyone？） which is so critical to a functioning of our democracy。 It shines a light on the operation of news gathering and the consequences of media competition。 As a librarian， I expect this book to be a best seller that provides libraries as purveyors of education with a painless， enjoyable vehicle for our patrons to understand how media has become so politicized。 。。。more
Beth
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