The Body in the Reservoir by Michael Trotti is the new, definitive work on newspaper sensationalism in Virginia. Trotti documents the escalation of sensational reporting from Virginia's colonial era into the twentieth century. He summarizes all of the major murder sensations: Phillips, Cluverius, McCue, Beattie, etc. All that is, but the last great one: the Hall Case, only recently revealed in Murder At Green Springs. Trotti's text was, no doubt, completed before then.
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
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