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Lisa Speranza
A McKeesport Murder Mystery
9781540299161
Regular price $34.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Explore a true crime mystery from the Tube City.
Local socialite La Roux Soles’ hometown of McKeesport spoke her name in whispers. She and her husband Bob, a charming war hero and successful businessman, lived it up with boozy prohibition parties in their mansion perched high above the National Tube Works, the industrial heart of the gritty town. Behind the façade, Bob harbored secrets that shattered them both, drove her mad, and pushed her to commit the ultimate act of desperation—or was it murder? Like grime from the steel mill cloaking their mansion windows, the real story of that warm June night in 1933 was obscured. The mysterious events left a scar upon McKeesport that never quite healed and soon captured the nation’s attention.
Local author and historian Lisa Speranza exhumes the heart of the scandal, unraveling an almost century-old story that time nearly forgot.
Patrick J. Baker
Murder at the Lumberjack Tavern
9781540299147
Regular price $34.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Explore the true story of a famous crime that inspired Anatomy of a Murder
Just after midnight on July 31, 1952, Army Lieutenant Coleman A. Petersen walked into the Lumberjack Tavern in Big Bay, Michigan, and shot Mike Chenoweth in retaliation for an assault on his wife. This revenge killing rocked the small lumber town in the Upper Peninsula, and the trial that followed inspired a best-selling novel and an Academy Award–nominated motion picture, Anatomy of a Murder.
Using the testimony taken from trial transcripts, the police investigator, and the killer, author Patrick J. Baker shares the real story of a sensational murder trial that captivated the Midwest and the aftermath that drew the eyes of the nation.
Michael Kishbucher
The Portage County UFO Chase
9781540299130
Regular price $34.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%An enduring feedback loop where belief masquerades as evidence and credibility becomes collateral damage.
In April 1966, police officers in rural Ohio and western Pennsylvania chased a glowing object across eighty miles of back roads. The encounter—silent, blinding, and seemingly intelligent—became one of the most famous UFO cases in American history and helped inspire the opening scenes of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But the mystery didn’t end when the lights vanished. Drawing on primary sources, official records, and personal experience, this book traces how a single night’s events were transformed into lasting folklore—shaped not just by witnesses and the media, but by the U.S. military’s own investigative machinery. Rather than merely asking what the police chased, a more unsettling question is asked here: how did government involvement, belief, and mistrust combine to create a self-perpetuating legend that still echoes today?
Author Michael Kishbucher, a career Air Force and Defense Intelligence Agency officer, revisits this strange Appalachian legend from an uncommon perspective: from within the intelligence community itself.
Phillip Andrew Gibbs
Law & Order for Hire in Virginia
9781540299062
Regular price $34.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%rue crime history;appalachian crime;american outlaw;cold case investigation;unsolved murder;southern gothic;frontier justice;wild west lawman;historical nonfiction;civil war aftermath;railroad detective;coal country crime;mountain justice;vigilante history;corrupt politician;gilded age crime;southern history;american west nonfiction;crime nonfiction;reconstruction era;notorious killer;criminal investigation;american gangster;forensic history;lost cause;rural crime;courthouse drama;justice served;criminal history;outlaws and lawmen;southern crime;notorious criminal;american history nonfiction;detective story nonfiction;crime and punishment;western history;appalachian history;southern gothic nonfiction;coal miner history;blue ridge history;shenandoah valley history;american justice system;crime spree;criminal mastermind;murder case;justice nonfiction;bootlegger history;coal wars;mountain feud;lawless frontier
