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No Place Like Murder True Crime in the Midwest : True Crime in the Midwest by Janis Thornton, Larry Sweazy, Ray E. Boomhower is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"This engrossing collection of historical Midwest murders reads like a thriller. True crime at its best. I couldn't put it down." --Susan Furlong, author of the Bone Gap Travellers novels A modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators' mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, and trials, as well as what became of them long after. True crime author Janis Thornton profiles notorious murderers such as Frankie Miller, who was fed up when her fianc stood her up for another woman. As fans of the song "Frankie and Johnny" already know, Frankie met her former lover at the door with a shotgun. Thornton's tales reveal the darker side of life in the Midwest, including the account of Isabelle Messmer, a plucky young woman who dreamed of escaping her quiet farm-town life. After she nearly took down two tough Pittsburgh policemen in 1933, she was dubbed "Gun Girl" and went on to make headlines from coast to coast. In 1942, however, after a murder conviction in Texas, she vowed to do her time and go straight. Ful

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Author

Janis Thornton, Larry Sweazy, Ray E. Boomhower

Publisher

Quarry Books, an imprint of Indiana University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253052810

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, True Crime, History