Great American Crime Stories: Lyons Press Classics

By Bill Bowers

A chilling, thrilling collection of true American crimes, long-forgotten and legendary

The Bloody Benders Family . . . The Black Hand of New Orleans . . . The Crimes of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch . . . The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah . . . Rachel Wall, Female Pirate and The Last Woman to be Hanged in Massachusetts . . . Dr. Valorous Coolidge, who Performed the Autopsy on the Man He Murdered . . . and even a crime chronicled by President Abraham Lincoln. This criminal collection of Lyons Press American Classics delivers the murderous, thieving, and otherwise nefarious acts we love to read about--all from our deep history and in a book that makes a great gift as part of Lyons's outstanding Americana library.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493029371
• ISBN13: 9781493029372
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"