Title: Utterly unconvincing
Review: Graysmith didn't even convince me that there WERE two murders at the church or that the church even existed! If a book purports to be "true crime," please don't make guesses at what the thoughts of the principals might be! Refer to your sources! Use footnotes! Were there any photographs of San Francisco from at or near the time of the murders? If I can see photos of Lizzie Borden and Jack the Ripper's victims elsewhere, why do we just get illustrations (most without source citations) in this book? Evidence of this kind would make the book much more credible and convincing. I didn't pick the book up to read about the newspaper wars, either! The story of the Bell Tower would have been interesting as a novel if the secondary plot lines were abandoned. But if it's going to be written in narrative style, PLEASE tout it as fiction it is!
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