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The Book of William by Paul Collins5/22/2023 To William Randolph Hearst, the crime was perfect opportunity to trumpet his newly launched New York Evening Journal. What was still missing, though, was his head-which, rumor had it, a jealous lover had hidden inside a block of plaster. He'd reappeared scattered in pieces along the Lower East Side, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. The head everyone sought was of William Guldensuppe, a masseur who had disappeared in late June from his Hell's Kitchen apartment. In the summer of 1897, that question meant just one thing in Manhattan newsrooms, and it wasn't a request to meet the managing editor. on a hot July night when detectives marched into the offices of the New York World. Paul Collins teaches creative writing at Portland State University, and his latest book is The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World.
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