45 Murderers : A Collection of True Crime Stories
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Overview
From Hollywood's Black Dahlia to the Arkansas Bluebeard: an anthology of true-crime profiles by "the grand dame of mystery" (Ed Gorman)
Whether venturing into a blood-spattered farm in Texas, down a lonely mountain road in Alabama, or into the deceptively sunny Ohio suburbs, acclaimed mystery writer Craig Rice lends her hard-boiled style and a wicked irony to this gallery of real-life murders. Among them ...
A saintly middle-aged widow bludgeoned to death in her New Jersey home; the headless torsos of two women found floating in the Lake of the Ozarks; a New Year's fire in Pennsylvania set to cover the traces of a more ghastly crime; a traveling evangelist on a divine mission blown to bits in Berkley; an aspiring starlet tortured, bisected, and dumped in a vacant LA lot; and a New York couple poisoned to death by the mysterious "Veiled Murderess," a convicted killer who never revealed her motives--or her true identity.
Culled from Rice's work as a crime reporter, "the stories in 45 Murderers have withstood time" as a century-spanning, cross-country tour of the sinister underbelly of the American Dream (Jeffrey Marks, author of Who Was That Lady?).
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- ISBN-13: 9781094123776
- ISBN-10: 1094123773
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date: June 2021
- Dimensions: 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.2 pounds
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