| Villisca Contributor(s): Marshall, Roy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1593300093 ISBN-13: 9781593300098 Publisher: Aventine Press OUR PRICE: $19.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2003 Annotation: In 1912 what was arguably the most violent crime, the darkest mystery, in Midwest history took place. Law enforcement officers encountered a scene of unimagined violence: eight victims, six of them children, bludgeoned to death with an ax while they slept. Everywhere there were clues. But inexperienced investigators failed, and private detectives took over. When Detective James Newton Wilkerson charged that a respected state senator had been motivated to the unthinkable by the promiscuity of his daughter-in-law, the community was drawn into a bitter and accelerating struggle between powerful men. And then a deranged and perverted minister confessed. . . . |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| LCCN: 2003271160 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.25 lbs) 416 pages |