Great American Crime Stories - Lyons Press Classics

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

• Authors: Bill Bowers
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781493029372
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-2937-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA