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No Place Like Murder

eBook - True Crime in the Midwest

Erschienen am 29.09.2020
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ISBN/EAN: 9780253052810
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 272 S.
Auflage: 1. Auflage 2020
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM

Beschreibung

A modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes,No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators' mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, and trials, as well as what became of them long after.True crime author Janis Thornton profiles notorious murderers such as Frankie Miller, who was fed up when her fiancé stood her up for another woman. As fans of the song "Frankie and Johnny" already know, Frankie met her former lover at the door with a shotgun.Thornton's tales reveal the darker side of life in the Midwest, including the account of Isabelle Messmer, a plucky young woman who dreamed of escaping her quiet farm-town life. After she nearly took down two tough Pittsburgh policemen in 1933, she was dubbed "Gun Girl" and went on to make headlines from coast to coast. In 1942, however, after a murder conviction in Texas, she vowed to do her time and go straight. Full of intrigue and revelations,No Place Like Murder also features such folks as Chirka and Rasico, the first two Hoosier men to die in the electric chair after they brutally murdered their wives in 1913. The two didn't meet until their fateful last night.An enthralling and chilling collection,No Place Like Murder is sure to thrill true crime lovers.

Autorenportrait

Janis Thornton is the author of the true crime storyToo Good a Girl; two cozy mysteries,Dust Bunnies& Dead Bodies andDead Air& Double Dare; and a stand-alone mystery,Love, Lies, and Azure Eyes. In addition, she has produced three pictorial-history books in the Images of America series, highlighting Indiana's Tipton County and the cities of Elwood and Frankfort. She is a member of the national Sisters in Crime organization and its Indianapolis chapter, the Authors Guild, the Indianapolis Writers Center, and the Tipton County Historical Society. She is based in Tipton, Indiana. To see more of her work, visit www.janis-thornton.com, Twitter (@JanisThornton), and Facebook (facebook.com/janisthorntonauthor).

Inhalt

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

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