Great American Crime Stories: Lyons Press Classics
A chilling, thrilling collection of true American crimes, long-forgotten and legendary

The Bloody Benders Family . . . The Black Hand of New Orleans . . . The Crimes of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch . . . The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah . . . Rachel Wall, Female Pirate and The Last Woman to be Hanged in Massachusetts . . . Dr. Valorous Coolidge, who Performed the Autopsy on the Man He Murdered . . . and even a crime chronicled by President Abraham Lincoln. This criminal collection of Lyons Press American Classics delivers the murderous, thieving, and otherwise nefarious acts we love to read about—all from our deep history and in a book that makes a great gift as part of Lyons’s outstanding Americana library.
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Great American Crime Stories: Lyons Press Classics
A chilling, thrilling collection of true American crimes, long-forgotten and legendary

The Bloody Benders Family . . . The Black Hand of New Orleans . . . The Crimes of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch . . . The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah . . . Rachel Wall, Female Pirate and The Last Woman to be Hanged in Massachusetts . . . Dr. Valorous Coolidge, who Performed the Autopsy on the Man He Murdered . . . and even a crime chronicled by President Abraham Lincoln. This criminal collection of Lyons Press American Classics delivers the murderous, thieving, and otherwise nefarious acts we love to read about—all from our deep history and in a book that makes a great gift as part of Lyons’s outstanding Americana library.
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Great American Crime Stories: Lyons Press Classics

Great American Crime Stories: Lyons Press Classics

by Bill Bowers
Great American Crime Stories: Lyons Press Classics

Great American Crime Stories: Lyons Press Classics

by Bill Bowers

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A chilling, thrilling collection of true American crimes, long-forgotten and legendary

The Bloody Benders Family . . . The Black Hand of New Orleans . . . The Crimes of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch . . . The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah . . . Rachel Wall, Female Pirate and The Last Woman to be Hanged in Massachusetts . . . Dr. Valorous Coolidge, who Performed the Autopsy on the Man He Murdered . . . and even a crime chronicled by President Abraham Lincoln. This criminal collection of Lyons Press American Classics delivers the murderous, thieving, and otherwise nefarious acts we love to read about—all from our deep history and in a book that makes a great gift as part of Lyons’s outstanding Americana library.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493029389
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date: 09/01/2017
Series: Lyons Press Classics
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Bill Bowers is a freelance editor and writer. He lives with his wife in rural New England.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

1 The Colt-Adams Affair (1841) 1

2 Dr. Valorous P. Coolidge 19

3 The Bloody Benders Family 27

4 The Lamana Kidnapping and the New Orleans Black Hand 49

5 The Murder of Grace Mae Brown 57

6 The Mansfield Walworth Parricide 68

7 Laura Bullion and the Wild Bunch 85

8 Henrietta Robinson, the Veiled Murderess 105

9 The Mountain Meadows Massacre 123

10 Rachel Wall, Pirate and Robber (1789) 137

11 Madame delphine Lalaurie, New Orleans Monster 149

12 The Beadle Family Murder-Suicide 161

13 The Antoine Probst Ax Murders (1866) 179

14 Slobbery Jim & The Daybreak Gang (1850s) 189

15 Abraham Lincoln's Remarkable Case (1841) 209

16 Harry T. Hayward, the "Minneapolis Svengali" (1895) 219

17 Belle Sorenson Gunness, Serial Killer (Declared Dead, 1908) 241

18 Brothers Felipe Nerio Espinosa & José Vivian 253

19 The Loomis Gang 263

20 Jimmy Logue and Alphonso Cutaiar, Career Criminals (1850-1880s) 287

Sources 299

Acknowledgments 305

About the Editor 307

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