Murderous Acts

100 Years of Crime in the Midwest

By: Keven McQueen

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Paperback | 1 October 2021

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206 Pages

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While the Midwest may be known for salt-of-the-earth folks, it's also home to murder and mayhem.

In Murderous Acts: 100 Years of Crime in the Midwest, Keven McQueen explores a century of true crimes committed in 10 Midwestern states, from the 1840s to the 1940s. With a touch of gallows humor, McQueen relies on original research to recount infamous transgressions-including Michigan's Robert Irving Latimer case, the serial murders of Nebraskan Jake Bird, and the bloody deeds of Kansas's Bender family-as well as gruesome tales that are less well known, such as the Wisconsin man with a penchant for swinging an axe at the necks of men he didn't care for, the Hoosier who killed his sweetheart in the midst of a Halloween ball, and the French nobleman who wreaked havoc in a St. Louis hotel.

Murderous Acts will intrigue and delight fans of true crime and will send a shiver down the spine of any reader fascinated by the dark history of America's Heartland.

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McQueen writes with assured swiftness as he progresses through retellings that don't show much to applaud in the way of justice served. A hundred years later, it's still easy to 'blame the victim.' . . . McQueen sleuths his 'historical true crimeand real-life surrealism' throughout the realm of newspaper accounts.

-- Rita Kohn * NUVO *

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