Great American Crime Stories

Lyons Press Classics

Bill Bowers

A chilling, thrilling collection of true American crimes, long-forgotten and legendary

The Bloody Benders Family . . . The Black Hand of New Orleans . . . The Crimes of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch . . . The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah . . . Rachel Wall, Female Pirate and The Last Woman to be Hanged in Massachusetts . . . Dr. Valorous Coolidge, who Performed the Autopsy on the Man He Murdered . . . and even a crime chronicled by President Abraham Lincoln. This criminal collection of Lyons Press American Classics delivers the murderous, thieving, and otherwise nefarious acts we love to read about—all from our deep history and in a book that makes a great gift as part of Lyons’s outstanding Americana library.

Globe Pequot / Lyons Press

Pages: 320 • Trim: 5½ x 8½

978-1-4930-2937-2 • Paperback • September 2017 • $14.00 • (£10.99)

978-1-4930-2938-9 • eBook • September 2017 • $12.99 • (£9.99)

Series: Lyons Press Classics

Subjects: True Crime / General, History / General, True Crime / Murder / General

Great American Crime Stories

Lyons Press Classics

Paperback

eBook

Summary

A chilling, thrilling collection of true American crimes, long-forgotten and legendary

The Bloody Benders Family . . . The Black Hand of New Orleans . . . The Crimes of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch . . . The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah . . . Rachel Wall, Female Pirate and The Last Woman to be Hanged in Massachusetts . . . Dr. Valorous Coolidge, who Performed the Autopsy on the Man He Murdered . . . and even a crime chronicled by President Abraham Lincoln. This criminal collection of Lyons Press American Classics delivers the murderous, thieving, and otherwise nefarious acts we love to read about—all from our deep history and in a book that makes a great gift as part of Lyons’s outstanding Americana library.

Details

Globe Pequot / Lyons Press

Pages: 320 • Trim: 5½ x 8½

978-1-4930-2937-2 • Paperback • September 2017 • $14.00 • (£10.99)

978-1-4930-2938-9 • eBook • September 2017 • $12.99 • (£9.99)

Series: Lyons Press Classics

Subjects: True Crime / General, History / General, True Crime / Murder / General