Profiles 20 sensational true crimes from the 19th and 20th centuries Features a true creative nonfiction style, as each telling reads like a story Moves beyond details of the crimes to offer insight into motivations
Profiles 20 sensational true crimes from the 19th and 20th centuries Features a true creative nonfiction style, as each telling reads like a story Moves beyond details of the crimes to offer insight into motivations
Janis Thornton is the author of the true crime story Too Good a Girl; two cozy mysteries, Dust Bunnies & Dead Bodies and Dead Air & Double Dare; and a stand-alone mystery, Love, Lies, and Azure Eyes. In addition, she has produced three pictorial-history books in the Images of America series, highlighting Indiana's Tipton County and the cities of Elwood and Frankfort. She is a member of the national Sisters in Crime organization and its Indianapolis chapter, the Authors Guild, the Indianapolis Writers Center, and the Tipton County Historical Society. She is based in Tipton, Indiana. To see more of her work, visit www.janis-thornton.com, Twitter (@JanisThornton), and Facebook (facebook.com/janisthorntonauthor).
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Forewords Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: All in the Family 1. The Mysterious Death of Belle Shenkenberger 2. The Liberation of Nora Coleman 3. 'Sweet Dreams, Mother' PART II: Wife Killers 4. Dan Snider and the Strychnine Solution 5. The Case of the Drowsy Uxoricidist 6. Death on Maish Road 7. Chirka and Rasico PART III: To Err Can Be Murder 8. Manhunt for the In-law Outlaws 9. The Black Sheep of Goldsmith PART IV: Loved to Death 10. He Was Her Man, But He Done Her Wrong 11. Fairy's Grim Tale of the Murder on LaFountain PART V: Deadly Decisions 12. Murder on Anderson and Main 13. The Strawtown Murders 14. Murder Unbecoming a Hero PART VI: Worst of the Worst 15. The Awful Crime of Jesse McClure 16. Massacre on Laughery Creek PART VII: Local Legends 17. The Legend of Kokomo Mayor H.C. Cole 18. Gun Girl PART VIII: Unsolved but Unforgotten 19. Murder Most Foul 20. The Strange Death of Garnet Ginn
Forewords Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: All in the Family 1. The Mysterious Death of Belle Shenkenberger 2. The Liberation of Nora Coleman 3. 'Sweet Dreams, Mother' PART II: Wife Killers 4. Dan Snider and the Strychnine Solution 5. The Case of the Drowsy Uxoricidist 6. Death on Maish Road 7. Chirka and Rasico PART III: To Err Can Be Murder 8. Manhunt for the In-law Outlaws 9. The Black Sheep of Goldsmith PART IV: Loved to Death 10. He Was Her Man, But He Done Her Wrong 11. Fairy's Grim Tale of the Murder on LaFountain PART V: Deadly Decisions 12. Murder on Anderson and Main 13. The Strawtown Murders 14. Murder Unbecoming a Hero PART VI: Worst of the Worst 15. The Awful Crime of Jesse McClure 16. Massacre on Laughery Creek PART VII: Local Legends 17. The Legend of Kokomo Mayor H.C. Cole 18. Gun Girl PART VIII: Unsolved but Unforgotten 19. Murder Most Foul 20. The Strange Death of Garnet Ginn
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