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Murder in old Kentucky : true crime stories from the Bluegrass
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
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-Author attends numerous local events and will be a good self-promoter -His other books sell well and get good publicity -The true stories are short and easy to read in small spurts.
Details
- Creator
- Keven McQueen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Second edition
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (215 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780253057501, 9780253057495, 0253057507, 0253057493
- OCLC
- on1260132935, on1259588416
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Expanded 2021 Edition -- 1. Kentucky's First Great Murder -- 2. Richard Shuck Confesses All and Then Some -- 3. A Mob Teaches Mr. Klein the Error of His Ways -- 4. Playing It Cool -- 5. Colonel Buford Begs to Differ with Judge Elliott -- 6. An Argument for the Involuntary Commitment of the Criminally Insane -- 7. An Arsonist with a Grudge -- 8. Cold Case File, 1866 -- 9. A Question of Sanity -- 10. The Hanging of John Vonderheide -- 11. A Regular Killing Machine -- 12. "A Little Fun": The Ashland Tragedy -- 13. A Two-Fisted Professor Refuses to Take No for an Answer -- 14. Moses Caton, Family Man -- 15. Knox County Atrocity -- 16. A Possible Poisoner and a Definite One -- 17. The Smart Murders, or Choose Your Friends Wisely -- 18. How Not to Spend Homecoming Week -- 19. The Showers-Moore Tragedy -- 20. On the Benefits of Keeping One's Temper -- 21. A Heart in the Wrong Place -- 22. Two for the Chair -- 23. Murder on a College Campus -- 24. Same Story, Different Endings -- 25. The Head on the Mound -- Bibliography