Great American Crime Stories
Author | : Bill Bowers |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2017-09-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781493029389 |
ISBN-13 | : 149302938X |
Rating | : 4/5 (38X Downloads) |
Download or read book Great American Crime Stories written by Bill Bowers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling, thrilling collection of true American crimes, long-forgotten and legendary The Bloody Benders Family . . . The Black Hand of New Orleans . . . The Crimes of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch . . . The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah . . . Rachel Wall, Female Pirate and The Last Woman to be Hanged in Massachusetts . . . Dr. Valorous Coolidge, who Performed the Autopsy on the Man He Murdered . . . and even a crime chronicled by President Abraham Lincoln. This criminal collection of Lyons Press American Classics delivers the murderous, thieving, and otherwise nefarious acts we love to read about—all from our deep history and in a book that makes a great gift as part of Lyons’s outstanding Americana library.