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1) Holy Ghost
The definitive account of audacious con woman Cassie Chadwick, the Carnegie Imposter
Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and "one of the top 10 imposters of all time," according to Timemagazine. Born Betsy Bigley in 1857 in Canada, she first operated as Madame Devere, a European clairvoyant, and in 1890 was arrested for defrauding a Toledo bank of $20,000. In the mid-1890s, while
...Murder and miscarriage of justice in a rural communityThe townsfolk of Logan, Ohio, a mined-out area of the Appalachian foothills, cheered as an innocent man was convicted and sent to death row. The occasion was the conviction of Dale N. Johnston. His trial ended nothing; the tragedies had just begun. What really happened on that bitter cold day in January 1984 was the total collapse of the local criminal justice system.It began with a lovers'
...A new look at some gruesome and riveting murders
In this grisly and gripping collection of essays—some revised and updated, some never before published, but all new to American audiences—prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman turns his attention to a variety of British and American crimes from the 1820s to the 1980s, some high profile and others not. With the author as detective, each of Goodman's essays examines a
...19) If You Only Knew
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