Murder City The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties [Paperback]

Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else. So begins a chapter of this sharp, fearless collection from a master storyteller. Revisiting seventeen Chicago murder casesincluding that of Belva and Beulah, two murderesses whose trials inspired the musicalMichael Lesys disturbingly satisfying account of Chicago in the 1920sthe epicenter of murder in Americacould be fiction, but its not.