The Acorn Murders
A Gothic Confession from the Chicago Ledger, 1907by [Redacted] Part I — Ink, Smoke, and Madness I should have stopped writing about death when it began writing back.Chicago in the year of our Lord 1907 was a city of soot and sawdust, of men who built empires from other men’s bones. I wrote about those bones for a living. My name is Edward Mallory — crime reporter for The Chicago Ledger,…











