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Book

The girls of Murder City : fame, lust, and the beautiful killers who inspired Chicago

Call Number

  • 364.1523 P4627 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Viking, 2010.

Physical Description

xi, 304 p. , [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • A grand object lesson
  • The variable feminine mechanism
  • One-gun duel
  • Hang me? That's a joke
  • No sweetheart in the world is worth killing
  • The kind of gal who never could be true
  • A modern Salome
  • Her mind works vagrantly
  • Jail school
  • The love-foiled girl
  • It's terrible, but it's better
  • What fooled everybody
  • A modest little housewife
  • Anne, you have killed me
  • Beautiful, But not dumb!
  • The tides of hell
  • Hatproof, sexproof, and damp
  • A grand and gorgeous show
  • Entirely too vile
  • The most monotonous city on earth.

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