Adirondack Tragedy

The Gillette Murder Case of 1906

• Author(s): Joseph W. Brownell, Patricia Wawrzaszek Enos,
• Publisher: Nicholas K. Burns Pub.
• Pages: 205
• ISBN_10: 0971306915
  ISBN_13: 9780971306912
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) , Law / Legal History , Literary Criticism / American / General , True Crime / Murder / General ,

Description:... Relive the heart-wrenching story of one of the most famous crimes in New Yorks history; the murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette at Big Moose Lake. Made famous by a media frenzy fueled by the sensational newspaper reporting of 1906, this crime of the century seeped into the American culture. The story of Chester and Grace was the inspiration for Theodore Dreisers novel An American Tragedy and the Hollywood movie A Place in the Sun. Brownell and Enos deliver a fascinating day-by-day account of the events leading to the death of Grace Brown, the media hyped, sensational trial of Chester Gillette, and the cultural immortalization of an Adirondack Tragedy.