The Music of Murder: A True Crime Tale from Jazz Age New Orleans - The Axe Man Files (Shadows of the Past) - Softcover

Hawthorne, Eliza

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798235088511

Verlag: Thrive Collective, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Between May 1918 and October 1919, someone walked into New Orleans homes through a chiseled-out back door, and left with an axe. The victims were mostly Italian grocers and their families, attacked in their beds in the dark. The city locked its doors and did not sleep. And then, in March 1919, a letter arrived at the Times-Picayune, signed by the killer, promising to spare any house where a jazz band was playing. That night, New Orleans played. The Music of Murder is the story of the Axeman, the city he terrorized, and the century of folklore that grew over the facts. Historian Eliza Hawthorne moves through the case night by night, from the first attack on the Maggios' grocery to the final strikes and the silence that followed, drawing on period newspapers, police records, court files, and personal letters. But this is not only a book about a killer. It is a book about who New Orleans decided to protect and who it decided to forget. About the Italian immigrant families whose grief was reported as spectacle. About detectives working a case in a police department that could not be trusted. About a press that fed the panic it claimed to be covering. And about how a city under siege turned its own terror into music. Inside: The attacks, reconstructed chronologically from the surviving evidence The Axeman's letter, and what really happened on the night of March 19 The suspects, the theories, and an honest accounting of which ones the record supports The victims, restored as people rather than headlines The afterlife of the case, from 1919 newspaper hysteria to the legend as it stands today Where the record is thin, Hawthorne says so. Where the story has grown past the facts, she separates them. The case is still unsolved, and this book does not pretend otherwise. Includes a full bibliography and a discussion guide for book clubs. The Music of Murder is Book Five of the Shadows of the Past series, in which Eliza Hawthorne investigates the historical crimes that refused to stay buried.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thrive Collective
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798235088511
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 156
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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