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This true crime book chronicles several murders that occurred in the South from the 1880s through the early 1930s. While many of the mentioned crimes achieved national notoriety, others remain buried in obscurity. Through meticulous research and astute conjectures, Keven McQueen attempts to unravel the mysteries and reveal the truth behind each chilling case.
Based on newspaper accounts from the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, many from the Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, the bizarre incidents of the South prove that death can be both surprising and macabre. Inspired by articles from the late 1800s to the 1930s, these true tales retain their accuracy but still aim to tell a good story. The stories vary in theme from Graveyard Gossip and Murders of Egregious Atrocity to Gore Galore and Tales of the Hangman.