Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime

For attendees to the Ashland Public Library Event with Dean Jobs and Joe Pompeo on July 22, the authors will be signing bookplates for every book ordered through Aesop's Fable. New York Times Editor’s Pick & Best True Crime of 2022 “Blood & Ink is among 2022’s best works of true crime.” —Washington Post Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister and his secret mistress, a Jazz Age mega-crime that propelled tabloid news in the 20th century. In September 1922, two artfully posed corpses were found on a lovers’ lane in central New Jersey. The murder of Reverend Edward Hall, married to an illustrious heiress, would’ve made headlines on its own. But after authorities identified the body of Eleanor Mills, a choir singer from Hall’s church, a scandal-hungry nation devoured copious newspaper coverage of this scandalous murder mystery full of eccentric characters: a feisty flapper, a slippery private eye, a pipe-smoking oddball, a