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The Music of Murder: A True Crime Tale from Jazz Age New Orleans

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  • The Music of Murder book cover: A silhouette of a man playing a saxophone in a window of a New Orleans building. Thrive Collective Publishing.
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  • Thrive Collective Publishing presents The Music of Murder, a true crime book about the Axeman of New Orleans, held by a woman in a teal dress.
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  • The Music of Murder: A True Crime Tale from Jazz Age New Orleans by Eliza Hawthorne. Features a silhouetted saxophonist in a window.
  • The Music of Murder: A True Crime Tale from Jazz Age New Orleans book cover, featuring a silhouette of a saxophonist in a window.
  • Thrive Collective Publishing's The Music of Murder book, a true crime tale from Jazz Age New Orleans, rests on sheet music next to a glass of whiskey and a lit candle.
  • Thrive Collective Publishing's The Music of Murder book cover, a true crime tale from Jazz Age New Orleans.
  • The Music of Murder: A True Crime Tale from Jazz Age New Orleans book cover. Silhouette of a man playing saxophone in a window.
  • The Music of Murder book cover: A silhouette of a man playing a saxophone in a window of a New Orleans building. Thrive Collective Publishing.
  • Thrive Collective Publishing The Music of Murder true crime book cover featuring a dark teal illustration of a doorway and musical notes.
  • Thrive Collective Publishing presents The Music of Murder, a true crime book about the Axeman of New Orleans, held by a woman in a teal dress.
  • Thrive Collective Publishing's The Music of Murder: A True Crime Tale from Jazz Age New Orleans book cover.
  • The Music of Murder: A True Crime Tale from Jazz Age New Orleans by Eliza Hawthorne. Features a silhouetted saxophonist in a window.
  • The Music of Murder: A True Crime Tale from Jazz Age New Orleans book cover, featuring a silhouette of a saxophonist in a window.
  • Thrive Collective Publishing's The Music of Murder book, a true crime tale from Jazz Age New Orleans, rests on sheet music next to a glass of whiskey and a lit candle.
  • Thrive Collective Publishing's The Music of Murder book cover, a true crime tale from Jazz Age New Orleans.
The Music of Murder: A True Crime Tale from Jazz Age New Orleans

The Music of Murder: A True Crime Tale from Jazz Age New Orleans

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Play jazz tonight, or the Axeman is coming.

The Music of Murder tells the true story of the Axeman of New Orleans, the masked killer who stalked the city in the spring of 1919 and published a letter in the local paper announcing he would spare any home with a jazz band playing inside. By midnight, every dance hall, every gin joint, and every front parlor in New Orleans was alive with music. Eliza Hawthorne pulls from period newspaper archives, surviving witness statements, and the cultural collision of Jazz Age America to reconstruct one of the strangest true crime cases in U.S. history.

For readers of Karen Abbott, Karen Kilgariff, and historical true crime that treats its sources seriously. Part of the Shadows of the Past series by Eliza Hawthorne.

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