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Book Review of Murder at the Brown Palace: A True Story of Seduction & Betrayal

Murder at the Brown Palace: A True Story of Seduction & Betrayal
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Having read several books about the lawlessness of Denver during western times, I thought it might be interesting to read about the law and Denver in the early 1900s. Newspaperman Dick Kreck has written a true story about a beautiful woman who was married to a famous Denver politician but involved with two other men at the same time. Those two men got into arguments and finally to murder.

The story is readable but that's about all that can be said for it. The characters are one-dimensional and fairly uninteresting. Probably the most interesting thing about the novel is the end -- telling what happened to each of the main characters after the trials.