Sinners and Scandals of Laurel Hill Cemetery
9781467171526
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Veteran guide and creator of the popular Sinners and Scandals of Laurel Hill Cemetery tour, Thomas H. Keels tells the spellbinding stories of thirteen unforgettable characters and unfolds Laurel Hill’s special place in Quaker City history.
Upon its founding in 1836, Laurel Hill Cemetery became the place to spend eternity for many of Philadelphia’s great and good, but alongside the luminaries interred in this Victorian necropolis lie shadier figures.
Philadelphia girl Mabel Tinley became one of the biggest grifters in Gay Nineties New York. Civil War general Henry Morris Naglee was denounced in the press as “a slayer of innocence and a robber of chastity.” The grisly death of Martha Drinnan, spinster daughter of the cemetery superintendent, remains an enduring mystery.
Veteran guide and creator of the popular Sinners and Scandals of Laurel Hill Cemetery tour Thomas H. Keels tells the spellbinding stories of thirteen unforgettable characters and reveals Laurel Hill's special place in Quaker City history.
True Crime Stories of Vermont
9781467171632
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Flung down a well. Buried alive in the backwoods. Gunned down in broad daylight.
Not what you’d expect from a place flocked to by influencers for its cozy aesthetic and iconic fall foliage.
Whether the crimes were intricately plotted or born of passion, Vermont’s history is filled with lawlessness, depravity, and murder.
Some culprits struck just once, some went on a spree, while others using opportunism and cunning menaced entire regions for years.
From the place Vermont calls “The Kingdom” to its “Marble City,” Thea Lewis, author of True Crime Stories of Burlington, Vermont, offers up more than a century of mayhem, with double lives, serial killers, and a plot to slay a beloved pop star with a global fan base.
Join her as she peels back the region’s reputation for wholesomeness and rural charm to show you the darker side of the Green Mountain State.
The Disappearance of Alice Corbett
9781467172158
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%November 13, 1925, marked the third miserably cold and dreary day on the campus of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Early that morning the girls at Park House made a horrible discovery. A senior girl, Jeanne Robeson, lay dead on the floor of her kitchenette, the apparent victim of gas asphyxiation.
Later that afternoon, a second tragedy loomed as the girls at Clark House became aware that one of their housemates was missing. Alice Corbett of Utica, New York, walked away from Clark House and simply vanished. Her disappearance was front-page news in every paper in the northeast.
With the death of one girl on campus and the disappearance of another, the press at first speculated that the two cases were somehow connected. The police, on the other hand, had other theories to investigate: was the Alice Corbett case a suicide, a runaway or an elopement? Did she suffer a nervous breakdown due to academic difficulties, or was her personal life dealt a staggering blow by a onetime boyfriend?
Join author James M. Greiner as he unravels the details behind this cold case.
