Category:
General Nonfiction
Regular worth:
$17.99
Deal worth:
$0.99
Deal begins:
January 08, 2023
Deal ends:
January 08, 2023
“This engrossing collection of historical Midwest murders reads like a thriller. True crime at its best. I couldn’t put it down.” —Susan Furlong, creator of the Bone Gap Travellers novels
A contemporary retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the within particulars behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The tales chronicle the misdeeds, inspecting the perpetrators’ mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, and trials, in addition to what turned of them lengthy after.
True crime creator Janis Thornton profiles infamous murderers similar to Frankie Miller, who was fed up when her fiancé stood her up for an additional lady. As followers of the track “Frankie and Johnny” already know, Frankie met her former lover on the door with a shotgun.
Thornton’s tales reveal the darker aspect of life within the Midwest, together with the account of Isabelle Messmer, a plucky younger lady who dreamed of escaping her quiet farm-town life. After she almost took down two robust Pittsburgh policemen in 1933, she was dubbed “Gun Girl” and went on to make headlines from coast to coast. In 1942, nonetheless, after a homicide conviction in Texas, she vowed to do her time and go straight. Full of intrigue and revelations, No Place Like Murder additionally options such people as Chirka and Rasico, the primary two Hoosier males to die within the electrical chair after they brutally murdered their wives in 1913. The two didn’t meet till their fateful final evening.
An enthralling and chilling assortment, No Place Like Murder is bound to thrill true crime lovers.
“Thornton wittily describes heretofore unheralded true crime stories from Indiana’s small towns.” —Keven McQueen, creator of Horror within the Heartland
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