Janis Thornton

No Place Like Murder

True Crime in the Midwest

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Profiles 20 sensational true crimes from the 19th and 20th centuries Features a true creative nonfiction style, as each telling reads like a story Moves beyond details of the crimes to offer insight into motivations

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 150mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780253052780
• ISBN-10: 0253052785
• Artikelnr.: 58601116

Autorenporträt

Janis Thornton, foreword by Larry Sweazy, Ray E. Boomhower

Inhaltsangabe

Forewords
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: All in the Family
1. The Mysterious Death of Belle Shenkenberger
2. The Liberation of Nora Coleman
3. 'Sweet Dreams, Mother'
PART II: Wife Killers
4. Dan Snider and the Strychnine Solution
5. The Case of the Drowsy Uxoricidist
6. Death on Maish Road
7. Chirka and Rasico
PART III: To Err Can Be Murder
8. Manhunt for the In-law Outlaws
9. The Black Sheep of Goldsmith
PART IV: Loved to Death
10. He Was Her Man, But He Done Her Wrong
11. Fairy's Grim Tale of the Murder on LaFountain
PART V: Deadly Decisions
12. Murder on Anderson and Main
13. The Strawtown Murders
14. Murder Unbecoming a Hero
PART VI: Worst of the Worst
15. The Awful Crime of Jesse McClure
16. Massacre on Laughery Creek
PART VII: Local Legends
17. The Legend of Kokomo Mayor H.C. Cole
18. Gun Girl
PART VIII: Unsolved but Unforgotten
19. Murder Most Foul
20. The Strange Death of Garnet Ginn