Price of Reputation (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Independently Published, 2026
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Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, Estados Unidos de AmericaGrand Eagle Retail
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Paperback. An unsolved double homicide. A tabloid trial. A record that could not become certainty.In 1922, Edward Wheeler Hall, an Episcopal rector, and Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, a choir singer at his church, were found dead near New Brunswick, New Jersey. Their private relationship became public almost immediately. The question of who killed them never received a final legal answer.Price of Reputation is a restrained historical true crime account of the Hall-Mills murders, the damaged early investigation, the 1926 prosecution, and the public spectacle that turned two deaths into a national story. Rather than forcing the case into a false solution, the book follows what the surviving record can bear: confirmed facts, disputed witness accounts, trial evidence, acquittals, missing or weakened records, and the difference between suspicion and proof.The case drew power from contradiction. A respected minister. A married choir singer. Two households. A field beneath a crabapple tree. Private letters exposed after death. A prosecution theory shaped by reputation, class, marriage, religion, and public outrage. A courtroom filled with witnesses, lawyers, reporters, and doubts the evidence could not overcome.At the center of the book are Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills-not as scandal figures, but as homicide victims whose lives were narrowed by headlines, rumor, and legal failure. The narrative also examines Frances Stevens Hall, William Stevens, Henry Stevens, Henry de la Bruyere Carpender, Clifford Hayes, Jane Gibson, and others drawn into a case where accusation, testimony, and reputation carried lasting consequences.Written for readers of historical true crime, cold case nonfiction, unsolved murder investigations, courtroom history, and evidence-focused crime writing, this book does not claim certainty where the record does not support it. It studies how a case can become famous without becoming solved, and how public belief can survive long after a jury has refused to convict.Price of Reputation follows the Hall-Mills case through the space between what was known, what was alleged, what was tested, and what remained unresolved. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798184718156
- Título
- Price of Reputation (Paperback)
- Autor
- Daniel Hartsfield
- Editorial
- Independently Published
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798184718156
An unsolved double homicide. A tabloid trial. A record that could not become certainty.
In 1922, Edward Wheeler Hall, an Episcopal rector, and Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, a choir singer at his church, were found dead near New Brunswick, New Jersey. Their private relationship became public almost immediately. The question of who killed them never received a final legal answer.
Price of Reputation is a restrained historical true crime account of the Hall-Mills murders, the damaged early investigation, the 1926 prosecution, and the public spectacle that turned two deaths into a national story. Rather than forcing the case into a false solution, the book follows what the surviving record can bear: confirmed facts, disputed witness accounts, trial evidence, acquittals, missing or weakened records, and the difference between suspicion and proof.
The case drew power from contradiction. A respected minister. A married choir singer. Two households. A field beneath a crabapple tree. Private letters exposed after death. A prosecution theory shaped by reputation, class, marriage, religion, and public outrage. A courtroom filled with witnesses, lawyers, reporters, and doubts the evidence could not overcome.
At the center of the book are Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills—not as scandal figures, but as homicide victims whose lives were narrowed by headlines, rumor, and legal failure. The narrative also examines Frances Stevens Hall, William Stevens, Henry Stevens, Henry de la Bruyere Carpender, Clifford Hayes, Jane Gibson, and others drawn into a case where accusation, testimony, and reputation carried lasting consequences.
Written for readers of historical true crime, cold case nonfiction, unsolved murder investigations, courtroom history, and evidence-focused crime writing, this book does not claim certainty where the record does not support it. It studies how a case can become famous without becoming solved, and how public belief can survive long after a jury has refused to convict.
Price of Reputation follows the Hall-Mills case through the space between what was known, what was alleged, what was tested, and what remained unresolved.
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