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Event Type: Book Discussion Age Group(s): Adults Date: 10/9/2017 Start Time: 6:30 PM End Time: 8:00 PM Description: Mystery Reading Group
Library: Fountain Hills Branch Library location September 11(Monday) 6:30-8pm Do you enjoy reading "who-done-its" whether they are courtroom thrillers or cozies? Want to discuss these books with other mystery lovers & discover new authors? Join the Mystery Reading Group. The group will be discussing The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry. Funded by the Fountain Hills Friends of the Library. Conference Room. Location: Conference Room Other Information: The true story of the murderesses who became media sensations and inspired the musical Chicago
Contact: KarenChicago, 1924. There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in the Second City. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders that spring were special - worthy of celebration. So believed Maurine Watkins, a wanna-be playwright and a "girl reporter" for the Chicago Tribune, the city's "hanging paper." Newspaperwomen were supposed to write about clubs, cooking and clothes, but the intrepid Miss Watkins, a minister's daughter from a small town, zeroed in on murderers instead. Looking for subjects to turn into a play, she would make "Stylish Belva" Gaertner and "Beautiful Beulah" Annan - both of whom had brazenly shot down their lovers - the talk of the town. Love-struck men sent flowers to the jail and newly emancipated women sent impassioned letters to the newspapers. Soon more than a dozen women preened and strutted on "Murderesses' Row" as they awaited trial, desperate for the same attention that was being lavished on Maurine Watkins's favorites. |