Murder & Mayhem

The Murder & Mayhem American history books series focuses on the sinister underbelly of our towns, counties, and cities. Meet the bank robber who killed both the Michigan’s warden and deputy warden. Discover how one of Rhode Island’s physicians got away with practicing while using narcotics. Get a front seat to Andrew Jackson’s legendary bar fight in Nashville, then visit the site of Ted Bundy’s first kill in Seattle. From the bloody Berkshires to notorious Jefferson County, these sordid stories provide transfixing entertainment for true crime fans everywhere. 
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Murder & Mayhem in Indiana
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Murder & Mayhem in Missouri
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Murder & Mayhem in Indiana

9781626193680

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With an eye for bizarre, macabre detail, Keven McQueen tracks down seventeen true crimes and unsolved mysteries in this collection of historic Hoosier homicides.

This grim collection of tales includes unimaginable incidents like the Indianapolis businessman whose car contained suspicious hams and the man who handed his new bride a drink of carbolic acid. It also reveals the tragedy of Gary's beautiful Arlene Draves, killed by her football player boyfriend, as well as a surprisingly comic courtroom revelation by Hammond's Hazel McNally that cleared her of all charges.

Author Keven McQueen is an instructor in the Department of English at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of twelve books on biography, history, folklore, ghost lore, natural disasters and historical true crime.

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Murder & Mayhem in Missouri

9781626190337

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Desperadoes like Frank and Jesse James earned Missouri the nickname of the Outlaw State after the Civil War, and that reputation followed the region into the Prohibition era through the feverish criminal activity of Bonnie and Clyde, the Barkers and Charles Pretty Boy Floyd. Duck into the Slicker War of the 1840s, a vigilante movement that devolved into a lingering feud in which the two sides sometimes meted out whippings, called slickings, on each other. Or witness the Kansas City Massacre of 1933, a shootout between law enforcement officers and criminal gang members who were trying to free Frank Nash, a notorious gang leader being escorted to federal prison. Follow Larry Wood through the most shameful and savage portion of the Show-Me State's history.
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Murder & Mayhem on Ohio's Rails

9781626192607

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Ride Ohio's rails with some of the bravest trainmen and most vicious killers and robbers to ever roll down the tracks.

The West may have had Jesse James and Butch Cassidy, but Ohio had its own brand of train robbers. Discover how Alvin Karpis knocked off an Erie Railroad train and escaped with $34,000. Learn about the first peacetime train holdup that took place in North Bend when thieves derailed the Kate Jackson, robbed its passengers and blew the Adam's Express safe. Make no mistake--railroading was a dangerous job in bygone days.

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