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A witty and informative look at a classic American murder circumstance.... On the 6,000-mile coach trip over the UNITED STATES continent from New York City to the Western Coast, then back to New York over the southern path, prizewinning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman went to a number of sites where notorious murders happened - the Kingsbury Run torso murders in Cleveland; the murder by "thrill killers" Leopold and Loeb, the St. ROMANTIC DAYS CELEBRATION Massacre, and the escapades of Al Capone in Chicago; the Henwood-VonPhul-Springer affair in Denver; the murders of Marian Williams and Blanche Lamont in the Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco; and Kate Townsend's murder in New Orleans. Goodman masterfully fuses two literary styles that reach back into the 19th hundred years: the real crime essay fathered by Thomas De Quincy and travel accounts popularized by Charles Dickens and Make Twain. As a genuine crime e book, Tracks to Murder is witty and informative and enriches these traditional American murder instances by placing them of their original options. Goodman also plays them against their locations as they are today, resulting in a series of figure sketches both modern and historical. Like a travel e book, it reveals the seasoned reflections of an cultivated English article writer on American manners and morals detected during his serendipitous transcontinental trip. "In each of these places, a murder happened, all a long while ago - not simply any old murder, no thud-and-blunder affair, but one that is worth keeping in mind, rarely as a result of crime itself but because of strangenesses due to, or taken to light by, that crime." (From your preface.) The e book is published with the Kent State School Press.

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Publisher	University Press Audiobooks
Language	English
ISBN
DATE	2015-12
Author	Jonathan Goodman

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