Magical History Tour

<p><em>Magical History Tour: Murder Mystery and Buried History </em>is a collection of <strong>short stories by popular author Peter Bronson</strong> a former editor at <em>The Cincinnati Enquirer</em>. </p><p>As usual in his books he surprises and entertains readers with long buried and forgotten nuggets of exciting people and events that shaped the region and the Midwest.</p><p>This short story collection is packed with exciting tales and vivid storytelling:</p><ul><li>In 1878 Cincinnati was shocked by a ghoulish crime: Graverobbers took the son of a former president from his fresh grave in North Bend. Detectives found the body hanging in a pit at the Ohio Medical College. </li><li>In 1850 a young man from Wilmington Ohio set off to join the Gold Rush in California. He named a city (Denver) and a state (Montana) and tamed Bleeding Kansas before the Civil War yet few today know about him.</li><li>Two young women died in a Cincinnati hotel room in 1877 after they were banished from the Whitewater Shaker Village north of Harrison. Was it suicide? Or murder? Why did the prosperous Society of Shakers vanish?</li><li>The first woman in Ohio to be executed in the electric chair was a serial killer in Cincinnati. The Black Widow murders of lonely elderly victims is one of the most chilling stories of heartless cruelty in local history.</li><li>In 2008 a group of Kentucky lawyers went on trial in the Covington federal courthouse and Cincinnati's Master of Disaster got stuck in the litigation tarpit that caused his downfall. </li><li><strong>PLUS:</strong> <em>Ten Places to Discover Cincinnati History</em>: The earliest cemeteries log cabins a Civil War camp and small museums with big stories to tell.</li></ul><p></p>