A Life and Phenomenal Disappearance in Jazz Age New York
On the night of August 6, 1930, Joseph Force Crater, a newly appointed judge and prominent figure in many circles of Manhattan, hailed a taxi in the heart of Broadway and vanished into thin air. Despite a decades-long international manhunt led by the New York Police Department's esteemed Missing Persons Bureau, the reason for Crater's ......
The Kent State University Press is excited to reissue these classic true crime detective stories by Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish American detective and spy who founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850. His agency was the largest private law enforcement organization in the world at the height of its power, and its well-known logo of ......
The Kent State University Press is excited to reissue these classic true crime detective stories by Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish American detective and spy who founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850. His agency was the largest private law enforcement organization in the world at the height of its power, and its well-known logo of ......
True Stories of Mobster Molls, Violent Vixens, and Murderous Matriarchs
In Pretty Evil Pennsylvania, historical true crime author Stephanie Hoover recounts the crimes committed by nine of the Keystone State's most violent female criminals from the 1850s through the 1930s.
A History of Breweries, Baseball, Prejudice, and Protest
Author Jo Allison delves into the shocking stories of the Gateway City's seamy past, including tales of cholera epidemics, deadly newspaper-daily duels, ragtime racism, Spiritualism scuffles, protests, and women's suffrage.
ISBN-13: 9781493059171
(Paperback)
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT Imprint: TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING
American-born Gus Pierce arrived in Australia and 1860 and promptly deserted, swimming ashore at Port Phillip. He worked as a photographer for Batchelders and painted scenery for the Lyceum theatre before hunting for snakes with Joe Shires – the inventor of a snake-bite cure. He compiled a strip map of the Murray River from Albury to Goolwa, by ......
During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century a growing number of ordinary citizens had the feeling that all was not as it should be. Men who were making money made prodigious amounts, but this new wealth somehow passed over the heads of the common people. As this new breed of journalists began to examine their subjects with scrutiny, ......
The 1909 murder case surrounding the wealthy Swope family of Independence, Missouri, led to the 'trial of the century' in the gothic-era Midwest. This book gathers the facts behind the suspicious fates of the eccentric Colonel, who was the millionaire donor of Kansas City's Swope Park as well as his affable cousin, and a young nephew and heir.
