Author: Giles Fowler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734260182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Book of the Year Award, 2009 ForeWord Magazine, True Crime category ; Jackson County Historical Society's 2009 Outstanding Achievement Award for the Historic Book of the Year The 1909 murder case surrounding the wealthy Swope family of Independence, Missouri, gripped newspaper readers throughout the nation. This book gathers the facts behind the suspicious fates of three Swope family members: the eccentric Colonel, millionaire donor of Kansas City, Missouri's Swope Park, his affable cousin, and a young nephew and heir. The mystery pits the Swope matriarch against her disfavored son-in-law, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde. Charged with poisoning the Colonel and suspected of multiple other attempted murders, Dr. Hyde endures national media attention for this crime of the century. The series of trials and appeals that followed explores the question: Was he a diabolical villain bent on inheriting Swope's millions or the unfortunate victim of a family grudge? This account of gothic-era America follows streetcar tracks from the courtrooms of Kansas City to the typhoid-plagued Swope mansion in nearby Independence. The author delivers an engaging and accurate retelling of these 100-year-old events in the literary journalism tradition by analyzing court transcripts, newspaper coverage, and personal memoirs. Readers also get a new scenario based on modern science for what may have happened in the dark hallways of the mansion on Pleasant Street.
Deaths on Pleasant Street
Author: Giles Fowler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734260182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Book of the Year Award, 2009 ForeWord Magazine, True Crime category ; Jackson County Historical Society's 2009 Outstanding Achievement Award for the Historic Book of the Year The 1909 murder case surrounding the wealthy Swope family of Independence, Missouri, gripped newspaper readers throughout the nation. This book gathers the facts behind the suspicious fates of three Swope family members: the eccentric Colonel, millionaire donor of Kansas City, Missouri's Swope Park, his affable cousin, and a young nephew and heir. The mystery pits the Swope matriarch against her disfavored son-in-law, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde. Charged with poisoning the Colonel and suspected of multiple other attempted murders, Dr. Hyde endures national media attention for this crime of the century. The series of trials and appeals that followed explores the question: Was he a diabolical villain bent on inheriting Swope's millions or the unfortunate victim of a family grudge? This account of gothic-era America follows streetcar tracks from the courtrooms of Kansas City to the typhoid-plagued Swope mansion in nearby Independence. The author delivers an engaging and accurate retelling of these 100-year-old events in the literary journalism tradition by analyzing court transcripts, newspaper coverage, and personal memoirs. Readers also get a new scenario based on modern science for what may have happened in the dark hallways of the mansion on Pleasant Street.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734260182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Book of the Year Award, 2009 ForeWord Magazine, True Crime category ; Jackson County Historical Society's 2009 Outstanding Achievement Award for the Historic Book of the Year The 1909 murder case surrounding the wealthy Swope family of Independence, Missouri, gripped newspaper readers throughout the nation. This book gathers the facts behind the suspicious fates of three Swope family members: the eccentric Colonel, millionaire donor of Kansas City, Missouri's Swope Park, his affable cousin, and a young nephew and heir. The mystery pits the Swope matriarch against her disfavored son-in-law, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde. Charged with poisoning the Colonel and suspected of multiple other attempted murders, Dr. Hyde endures national media attention for this crime of the century. The series of trials and appeals that followed explores the question: Was he a diabolical villain bent on inheriting Swope's millions or the unfortunate victim of a family grudge? This account of gothic-era America follows streetcar tracks from the courtrooms of Kansas City to the typhoid-plagued Swope mansion in nearby Independence. The author delivers an engaging and accurate retelling of these 100-year-old events in the literary journalism tradition by analyzing court transcripts, newspaper coverage, and personal memoirs. Readers also get a new scenario based on modern science for what may have happened in the dark hallways of the mansion on Pleasant Street.
Deaths on Pleasant Street
Author: Giles Fowler
Publisher: Truman State Univ Press
ISBN: 9781931112918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The 1909 murder case surrounding the wealthy Swope family of Independence, Missouri, led to the "trial of the century" in the gothic-era Midwest. This book gathers the facts behind the suspicious fates of the eccentric Colonel, who was the millionaire donor of Kansas City's Swope Park as well as his affable cousin, and a young nephew and heir. National media relished the drama as the Swope matriarch accused her disfavoured son-in-law, Dr Bennett Clark Hyde, of triple homicide, plus the spreading of deadly disease germs throughout the household. The author delivers an engaging and accurate retelling of these century-old mysteries by analysing court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and personal memoirs. Readers also get a new scenario based on modern science for what may have happened in the dark hallways of the mansion on Pleasant Street.
Publisher: Truman State Univ Press
ISBN: 9781931112918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The 1909 murder case surrounding the wealthy Swope family of Independence, Missouri, led to the "trial of the century" in the gothic-era Midwest. This book gathers the facts behind the suspicious fates of the eccentric Colonel, who was the millionaire donor of Kansas City's Swope Park as well as his affable cousin, and a young nephew and heir. National media relished the drama as the Swope matriarch accused her disfavoured son-in-law, Dr Bennett Clark Hyde, of triple homicide, plus the spreading of deadly disease germs throughout the household. The author delivers an engaging and accurate retelling of these century-old mysteries by analysing court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and personal memoirs. Readers also get a new scenario based on modern science for what may have happened in the dark hallways of the mansion on Pleasant Street.
Record of the Parish List of Deaths. 1785-1819
Author: William Bentley
Publisher: Peabody Essex Museum
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher: Peabody Essex Museum
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Report of births, marriages, and deaths in Massachusetts. 1850-54
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
A Taste for Death
Author: P. D. James
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307758982
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice--all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death. . . .
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307758982
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice--all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death. . . .
Another Kind of Dead
Author: Kelly Meding
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0345525779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
No longer able to trust her former allies or even the highest echelons of the Triads, Evy Stone, gifted with extraordinary powers, discovers that she is the key to a brilliant, vampire-obsessed scientist's ultimate experiment in mad science. Original.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0345525779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
No longer able to trust her former allies or even the highest echelons of the Triads, Evy Stone, gifted with extraordinary powers, discovers that she is the key to a brilliant, vampire-obsessed scientist's ultimate experiment in mad science. Original.
Annual Reports of the City Departments of the City of Cincinnati ...
Author: Cincinnati (Ohio)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
Annual report of the registrar-general of births, deaths, and marriages in England. v. 29 suppl., 1866
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Deaths; from 1640 to 1873
Author: Woburn (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Death Investigation in the United States and Canada, 1990
Author: Debra L. Combs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coroners
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coroners
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description