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In 1929, Chicago gangster Al Capone arranged a special St.
Valentine's Day delivery for his favorite arch enemies: a massacre.
Seven North Side mobsters were left dead. Yet random killings and
bizarre murders were not unfamiliar in Chicago. Tales of the city's
most violent and puzzling murders make this gripping work truly
hair-raising: a deranged stalker kills his love object and then
himself; a sausage maker uses the tools of his trade to rid himself
of his wife; and a meticulous serial killer cleans his dead
victims' wounds before taping them closed. Through accounts
dripping with mystery, gory details and suspense, Troy Taylor
brilliantly tells the twisted history of the worst of Chicago's
North Side.
Blazing from the West Side, the Great Chicago Fire left nothing but
ashy remnants of the developing city leveling its landscape but
certainly not its spirit. While the West Side was home to the
infamous O'Leary Barn, it was also where the news of some of the
city's most gruesome and horrific crime reverberated throughout the
state and across the country. Read about the bloody end of Robert
'the Terrible' Toughy, who undoubtedly lived up to his name, met an
ill-deserved fate. Troy Taylor also delves into the life of John
Wayne Gacy the depraved man masked by the clown costume and yet
again proves to be a master storyteller and historian of Chicago's
criminal underworld.
New Orleans--the Big Easy, the birthplace of jazz, home of Cafe du
Monde and what some call the most haunted city in America. Beneath
the indulgence and revelry of the Crescent City lies a long history
of the dark and mysterious. From the famous "Queen of Voodoo,"
Marie Laveau, who is said to haunt the site of her grave, to the
wicked LaLauries, whose true natures were hidden behind elegance
and the trappings of high society, New Orleans is filled with
spirits of all kinds. Some of the ghosts in these stories have
sordid and scandalous histories, while others are friendly specters
who simply can't leave their beloved city behind. Join supernatural
historian Troy Taylor as he takes readers beyond the French Quarter
and shows a side of New Orleans never seen.
"Since as early as the 1700s, New Orleans has been a city filled
with sin and vice. Those first pioneering citizens of the Big Easy
were thieves, vagabonds and criminals of all kinds. By the time
Louisiana fell under American control, New Orleans had become a
city of debauchery and corruption camouflaged by decadence. It was
also considered one of the country's most dangerious cities, with a
reputation of crime and loose morals. Rampant gambling and
prostitution were the norm in nineteenth-century New Orleans, and
over one-third of today's French Quarter was considered a hotbed of
sin. Tales in this volume of streets of the Crescent City in the
early 1900s and Kate Townsend, a prositute who was murdered by her
own lover, a man who later wass awarde her inheritance. Troy Taylor
takes a look back at New Orleans's early wicked days and historic
crimes" --Back cover.
Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Show Me State Reader,
beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal,
where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Author Troy
Taylor shines a light in the dark corners of Missouri and scares
those spirits out of hiding in this thrilling collection. From a
headless ghost who stalks the aptly named "Murder Rocks", to a
large hairy monster that roams the banks of the Missouri River,
there's no shortage of bone-chilling tales to keep you up at night.
It's even rumored that the devil himself came to St. Louis in 1949,
but nobody knows for sure if he ever left. Around the campfire or
tucked away on a dark and stormy night, this big book of ghost
stories is a hauntingly good read.
Journey back in time to the opulent days of St. Louis in the Gilded
Age and discover the true story of the Lemp family and its rise to
power, wealth and extravagance. It's a story that has become legend
over the years but one that few people truly know. Despite the fact
that the Lemps, and their legendary mansion, have inspired books,
ghost stories and television shows, the true story of their tragic
lives has become a confusing and convoluted mess of myths,
misconceptions, legends and outright lies, making it nearly
impossible to separate fact from fiction - until now. For the first
time, the story of the rise and fall of the Lemp empire can truly
be told. This is the first book that has been written with
cooperation from Lemp family descendants and features private
stories and details, as well as rare photographs, that have never
been told or seen before. The history of the Lemp family is a true
American tragedy, one of triumph over opposition, hard work,
perseverance, genius and madness, eccentricity and passion, horror,
death, suicide and ghosts. It's a story that is played out against
the backdrop of America's changing landscape of the late 1800s and
early 1900s and is enhanced by the history of the beer industry in
St. Louis, the German immigrant experience in America and takes a
riveting look at the lives and deaths of those for whom money truly
was no object. This is a tale that is purely American - of a
haunted family and a haunted house - told as only Troy Taylor can
tell it
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Hell Hath No Fury 3
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