The Killings of Stanley Ketchel: A Novel

The author of the brutal and brilliant Handsome Harry returns with the story of one of the greatest matches in boxing history. . . . “The Killings of Stanley Ketchel is a stunner. This is brilliant iconography, righteous Americana, and brutally powerful prose. A triumph!”—James Ellroy

Hailed as “one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life” (Entertainment Weekly), James Carlos Blake brings to life the blazing story of Stanley Ketchel, the ragtime-era middleweight boxi...