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The Devil's Right Palm chronicles the legacy of loss of life and destruction in the gunmaking Colt family through the 19th century, a legacy basically kept in mind for a lurid murder circumstance that inspired Edgar Allan Poe's report "The Oblong Field" - but the one that encompassed much more.... New York Times and nationally best-selling author M. William Phelps uncovers an unfathomable design surrounding repeating biceps and triceps inventor Samuel Colt - from the loss of life of most his children, including Sam's sea captain son's strange demise aboard his yacht, to the eccentric life of his widow. But the tip of the iceberg was the 1841-42 murder circumstance of sibling John C. Colt, one of New York's most sensational scandals. Computer printer Samuel Adams visited collect a arrears from bookkeeper and author John Colt and was never seen alive again. Shocking revelations used: Do John throw Adams with one of his brother's Colt firearms before hacking him up and packaging him within an oblong box? Do Sam Colt invent the revolving pistol, or grab the theory? Part historical true-crime, part family biography and social background, The Devil's Right Palm is a stirring narrative about a darkly cursed American dynasty.
