Shadow Men
By James Polchin
By James Polchin
By James Polchin
By James Polchin
Category: True Crime | Biography & Memoir | 20th Century U.S. History
Category: True Crime | Biography & Memoir | 20th Century U.S. History
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$29.00
Jun 11, 2024 | ISBN 9781640096004
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Jun 11, 2024 | ISBN 9781640096011
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Praise
“Shadow Men cements his place in the new true crime canon.” —Molly Odintz, CrimeReads
“Polchin combines a novelist’s gift for narrative and a journalist’s eye for detail in this riveting work of true crime . . . It’s an entertaining account of an obscure yet fascinating crime.” —Publishers Weekly
“Readers today will—as were readers in the 1920s—be confounded by the crime’s lack of resolution, which presages modern-day issues of money, political power, gambling, homophobia, media coverage, and accountability—or lack thereof—in America.” —Booklist
“A sensational crime provokes thought about class privilege and injustice in the American legal system.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Shadow Men unwinds a complex murder investigation about the moral decadence of the Jazz Age, the façade of privileged class mores, and the power of William Randolph Hearst’s empire of yellow journalism to shape public perception. Polchin brilliantly balances historical detail and forward momentum in a true crime tale that exposes the great inequities in our justice system, the shadows of which still loom today.” —John Copenhaver, award-winning author of Hall of Mirrors
“James Polchin’s triumphant Shadow Men weaves a Jazz Age whodunit out of Hitchcock, a richly laden escapade of gentlemen’s intrigue and the roughest of rough trade blackmail. This devilishly plotted potboiler exposes a champagne underworld of confidence men, blowoffs and suckers in a 1920s America that only gets queerer and queerer.” ––Robert W. Fieseler, Author of the Edgar Award Winner Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
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