| Memphis Murder & Mayhem Contributor(s): Simpson, Teresa R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 159629521X ISBN-13: 9781596295216 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2008 Annotation: With its alluring hospitality, legendary cuisine and transcendent music, Memphis is truly a quintessential Southern city. But lurking behind the barbeque and blue suede shoes is a dark history checkered with violence and disarray. Revisit the mass murder of 1866 that took more than fifty lives, the infamous Alice Mitchell case of the 1890s and a string of unthinkable twentieth-century sins. Author and lifelong Memphian Teresa Simpson expertly explores some of the River City's most menacing crimes and notorious characters in this riveting ride back through the centuries. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - Serial Killers - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| LCCN: 2008024601 |
| Series: Murder & Mayhem |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 6.14" W x 9.3" (0.58 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With its alluring hospitality, legendary cuisine and transcendent music, Memphis is truly a quintessential Southern city. But lurking behind the barbeque and blue suede shoes is a dark history checkered with violence and disarray. Revisit the mass murder of 1866 that took more than fifty lives, the infamous Alice Mitchell case of the 1890s and a string of unthinkable twentieth-century sins. Author and lifelong Memphian Teresa Simpson explores some of the River City's most menacing crimes and notorious characters in this riveting ride back through the centuries. |