Murder & mayhem on Chicago's North Side / Troy Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Troy, author.

Series:

Murder & mayhem in Chicago series.

Murder & mayhem in Chicago series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Murder.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (125 pages).

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina ; London : The History Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author of Haunted Illinois visits the criminal history of the Windy City neighborhood where mobsters and murderers plied their trades. In 1929, Chicago gangster Al Capone arranged a special St. Valentine's Day delivery for his favorite arch enemies: a massacre. Seven North Side mobsters were left dead. Yet random killings and bizarre murders were not unfamiliar in Chicago. Tales of the city's most violent and puzzling murders make this gripping work truly hair-raising: a deranged stalker kills his love object and then himself; a sausage maker uses the tools of his trade to rid himself of his wife; and a meticulous serial killer cleans his dead victim's wounds before taping them closed. Through accounts dripping with mystery, gory details and suspense, Troy Taylor brilliantly tells the twisted history of Chicago's North Side. Includes photos!

Contents:

The St. Valentine's Day massacre

Gin and jazz at the Green Mill

Death of a labor racketeer

The Luetgert sausage vat murder

The Lincoln Avenue streetcar murder

The case of the "Ragged Stranger"

The "Girl Bandit"

Dillinger : dead or alive!

The Wrigleyville torso murder

The murder of Dr. Peacock

Death of a showgirl

"Catch me before I kill more"

The "Natural" and the stalker.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781614232988

1614232989