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Author Young, Andrew (Historian), author.

Title Unwanted : a murder mystery of the gilded age / Andrew Young
Published Yardley, Pennsylvania : Westholme, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 268 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-259) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Murder -- Kentucky -- Fort Thomas
Trials (Murder) -- Kentucky -- Campbell County
Murder
Trials (Murder)
Kentucky -- Campbell County
Kentucky -- Fort Thomas
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781594166099
1594166099