Murder & Mayhem

Name: Murder & Mayhem in Nashville
Brand: Brian Allison
SKU: 9781467135733
Price: 23.99 USD
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The Murder & Mayhem American history books series focuses on the sinister underbelly of our towns, counties, and cities. Meet the bank robber who killed both the Michigan’s warden and deputy warden. Discover how one of Rhode Island’s physicians got away with practicing while using narcotics. Get a front seat to Andrew Jackson’s legendary bar fight in Nashville, then visit the site of Ted Bundy’s first kill in Seattle. From the bloody Berkshires to notorious Jefferson County, these sordid stories provide transfixing entertainment for true crime fans everywhere.

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Murder & Mayhem in East Tennessee

Memphis Murder & Mayhem

Murder & Mayhem in Nashville

9781467135733

$23.99

Author Brian Allison illustrates the darker shades of Nashville's colorful past.

Nashville is known for its bold, progressive flair, but few are aware of the city's malevolent past. A rowdy red-light district called "Smoky Row" spawned several fatal episodes. A murderous temptress with a penchant for poison once strolled the city streets. Legends range from Andrew Jackson's bar fight with Senator Thomas Hart Benton to the macabre 1938 Marrowbone Creek cabin murders. In 1938, a state penitentiary fugitive escape triggered a tragic gunfight.

Murder & Mayhem in East Tennessee

9781467144704

$21.99

East Tennessee is gorgeous country, but the hills and hollers have a dark side. James Earl Ray, who had already assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., created mayhem at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary when he led six other men in a short-lived escape. Several thousand Cherokee Indians from East Tennessee were forced on what would later be called the "Trail of Tears." In the "Hankins Murder" case and in the triple killings in Oliver Springs, chaos and confusion resulted from the wrongful arrest and public accusations of innocent people. Jake and C.H. Butcher brought about bedlam with their banking scandal that at the time was unsurpassed in scope in the nation's history. Author Dewaine A. Speaks details these stories and more.

Memphis Murder & Mayhem

9781596295216

$21.99

With its alluring hospitality, legendary cuisine and transcendent music, Memphis is truly a quintessential Southern city. But lurking behind the barbeque and blue suede shoes is a dark history checkered with violence and disarray. Revisit the mass murder of 1866 that took more than fifty lives, the infamous Alice Mitchell case of the 1890s and a string of unthinkable twentieth-century sins. Author and lifelong Memphian Teresa Simpson explores some of the River City's most menacing crimes and notorious characters in this riveting ride back through the centuries.