Murderous Acts

<p><b>While the Midwest may be known for salt-of-the-earth folks it's also home to murder and mayhem. </p><p></b>In <i>Murderous Acts: 100 Years of Crime in the Midwest</i> <i> </i>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. </p><p>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.</p>