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The girls of Murder City : fame, lust, and the beautiful killers who inspired Chicago / Douglas Perry.

by Perry, Douglas, 1968-

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Women murderers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Case studies.

Murder -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Case studies.

Nineteen twenties.

9780143119227 (2011 Penguin pbk.)

9780670021970 (hc.)

0670021970 (hc.)

xi, 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-295) and index.

The true story of the murderesses who became media sensations and inspired the musical Chicago. There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in Jazz Age Chicago. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders that spring were special, or so believed Maurine Watkins, 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 zeroed in on murderers instead. She made "Stylish Belva" Gaertner and "Beautiful Beulah" Annan--both of whom had brazenly shot down their lovers--the talk of the town. 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.

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