The girls of Murder City : fame, lust, and the beautiful killers who inspired Chicago
Summary
The true story of the murderesses who became media sensations and inspired the musical Chicago. There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in Jazz Age Chicago. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders that spring were special, or... Full description
- 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.