“A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.”

CRIME OF THE CENTURY is an epic American mosaic of interrelated characters whose lives are all pulled toward ruin by a large fortune.

Spanning 5 decades, CRIME OF THE CENTURY is set in Indianapolis, the heart of the great American Midwest and is a mostly truthful recounting of the tale of Marjorie Jackson, the eccentric widow of a multi-millionaire supermarket tycoon named Chester Jackson. 

CRIME OF THE CENTURY is a great and glorious exploration of greed, madness and the dirty dealings that rarely make the papers outside of the Midwest. It is a bloody, nonlinear retelling of one of the most entertaining parts of Indianapolis’s history that most around town would prefer you not know.