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Speaking Ill of the Dead.

Each volume in this series features fifteen to twenty short biographies of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of a given city, state, or region of the U.S. The villainous, the misguided, and the misunderst...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sawyer, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Old Saybrook : Globe Pequot Press, 2016.
Colección:Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Histo.
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  • Intro; Dr. John Cook Bennett The Diploma Peddler 1804â#x80;#x93;1867; John Chivington The Fighting Parson 1821â#x80;#x93;1894; George H. Devol King of the Riverboat Gamblers 1829â#x80;#x93;1903; Nancy Farrer Insane Poisoner or Witless Dupe? 1832â#x80;#x93;185?; Victoria Claflin Woodhull Scandalous Suffragette 1838â#x80;#x93;1927; Stephen Wallace Dorsey Senator and Swindler 1842â#x80;#x93;1916; Cassie Chadwick Con Artist 1857â#x80;#x93;1907; Alfred Knapp Serial Strangler 1863â#x80;#x93;1904; Dr. James Howard Snook Gold Medal Murderer 1879â#x80;#x93;1930; Eva Brickel Kaber Murderer for Hire 1881â#x80;#x93;1931; Martha Wise The Poison Widow of Hardscrabble 1884â#x80;#x93;1971.
  • Charles Arthur â#x80;#x9C;Pretty Boyâ#x80;#x9D; Floyd Public Enemy Number One 1904â#x80;#x93;1934Anna Marie Hahn Arsenic Anna 1906â#x80;#x93;1938; Edythe Klumpp Murderous Seamstress 1918â#x80;#x93;1999; Jean Struven Harris The Scorned Headmistress 1923â#x80;#x93;2012; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.