Murder on the Ohio Belle

Murder on the Ohio Belle
Author :
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 161
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780813178721
ISBN-13 : 081317872X
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Murder on the Ohio Belle by : Stuart W. Sanders

Download or read book Murder on the Ohio Belle written by Stuart W. Sanders and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1856, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Mississippi River. Nothing out of the ordinary. In those days, people fished corpses from the river with alarming frequency. But this body, with its arms and legs tied to a chair, struck an especially eerie chord. The body belonged to a man who had been a passenger on the luxurious steamboat known as the Ohio Belle, and he was the son of a southern planter. Who had bound and pitched this wealthy man into the river? Why? As reports of the killing spread, one newspaper shuddered, "The details are truly awful and well calculated to cause a thrill of horror." Drawing on eyewitness accounts, Murder on the Ohio Belle uncovers the mysterious circumstances behind the bloodshed. A northern vessel captured by secessionists, sailing the border between slave and free states at the edge of the frontier, the Ohio Belle navigated the confluence of nineteenth-century America's greatest tensions. Stuart W. Sanders dives into the history of this remarkable steamer—a story of double murders, secret identities, and hasty getaways—and reveals the bloody roots of antebellum honor culture, classism, and vigilante justice.


Murder on the Ohio Belle Related Books

Murder on the Ohio Belle
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Stuart W. Sanders
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-17 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In March 1856, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Mississippi River. Nothing out of the ordinary. In those days, people fished corpses from the river with
A Killing in the Hills
Language: en
Pages: 383
Authors: Julia Keller
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-21 - Publisher: Macmillan

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins and her estranged teenage daughter, Carla, try to protect their town and each other in the aftermath of a shocking triple murde
Black Night for the Bluegrass Belle A
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Ian Punnett
Categories: Honor killings
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-04 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

On November 6, 1936, 40yearold Verna Garr Taylor of LaGrange, KY, was found dead in a soggy ditch just over the Henry County line. Her companion that night, 60y
The Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of Shaker Heights
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: William Louis Tabac
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: True Crime History

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

They have no witnesses. They have no case. With this blunt observation, Mariann Colby--an attractive, church-going Shaker Heights, Ohio, mother and housewife--b
The Mystifying Murder in Marion, Ohio
Language: en
Pages: 123
Authors: Phil Reid
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-06 - Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 1919, the first trans-Atlantic flight in world history occurred, the Volstead Act was passed (later on repealed), the Treaty of Versailles was signed, and Ba