M. Evans & Company
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978-1-59077-529-5 • eBook • March 1983 • $13.99 • (£8.95)
Jay Robert Nash is the bestselling author of Bloodletters and Badmen, Hustlers and Con Men, and the Almanac of True Crime. He received a special Edgar Allen Poe award in 1991 for his Encyclopedia of World Crime. He lives in Wilmette, Illinois.
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Edward S. "Ned" Stokes: SLayer of Big Jim Fisk (1872)
2. Carlyle Harris: Killer of a Secret Wife (1893)
3. Harry K. Thaw: The Millionaire Murderer (1906)
4. Dora Feldman McDonald: Murder for Love (1907)
5. Dr. Bennett Clarke Hyde: The Lethal Inheritance (1909)
6. Stanley Ketchel: Murder of a Champion (1910)
7. Charles Chapin: Debts That Killed (1918)
8. Kid McCoy: The Marrying Murderer (1924)
9. Arnold Rothstein: A Bullet for Mr. Big (1928)
10. Alfred "Jake" Lingle: End of a Tycoon Reporter
11. Jerry Buckley: Crusade of Death (1930)
12. Thelma Todd: A Silver Screen Mystery (1935)
13. Henry C. Heinz: One Burglary Too Many (1943)
14. The Turner-Stompanato Killing: A Family Affair (1958)
15. Candace Mossler: Millions and Murder (1964)
16. Tom Neal: The Self-Destructive Actor (1965)
17. Ramon Novarro: A Perversion That Killed (1968)
18. John S. Knight III: Death from Pleasure (1975)
19. Sal Mineo: The Murder of a Rebel (1976)
20. Claudine Longet: A Case of "Criminally Negligent Homicide" (1976)
21. Dan White: Death at the Seat of Power (1978)
22. Jean Struven Harris: A Wronged Woman's Fury (1980)
23. Allard Lowenstein: Death of a Do-Gooder (1980)
24. Dorothy Stratten: The Rise and Fall of a Playmate (1980)
25. Everett Clarke: Murder on the Stage (1980)
26. Michael J. Halberstam: The Genius-to-Genius Murder (1980)
27. John Lennon: The Slaying of a Superstar (1980)
28. Claus von Bulow: Injecting the Big Sleep (1980)