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  • LINCOLN ROAD TRIP
    JANE SIMON AMMESON
    "An engagingly written, personable, and intimate portrait of a president that walks in his footsteps and creates a cultural contextual lens through travel." — Library Journal America's favorite president sure got around. Before Abraham Lincoln's sojourned to the Oval Office, he grew up in Kentucky and began his career as a lawyer in Illinois. In fact, Lincoln toured some amazin...

    $200.00

  • HOW TO MURDER YOUR WEALTHY LOVERS AND GET AWAY WITH IT
    JANE SIMON AMMESON
    "Minnie Wallace Walkup Ketcham's criminal career as an unsung triple murderess and black widow . . . is told in rich detail and with pleasingly dark wit." —Keven McQueen, author of Louisville Murder & Mayhem What's a gal to do when her loaded lover is getting to be a nuisance? Why, just murder him and take all his money, of course. If you want to be fabulously single with tons ...

    $251.00

  • A JAZZ AGE MURDER IN NORTHWEST INDIANA
    JANE SIMON AMMESON
    Gold digging, adultery, and a slaying on Valentine's Day, 1923, in this "juicy . . . page-turner" of a true crime story ( Chicago Tribune).   It was a Roaring Twenties fatal attraction. Nettie Herskovitz was wealthy and widowed when she met Harry Diamond. The attentive, irresistibly sexy twenty-three-year-old suitor would become Nettie's fifth husband. He was also a bootlegger,...

    $229.00

  • MURDERS THAT MADE HEADLINES
    JANE SIMON AMMESON
    This fascinating chronicle of murder in the Hoosier State paints a chilling portrait of the American Midwest from mid-19th century to the Jazz Age.   In Murders that Made Headlines, Jane Simon Ammeson uncovers a grizzly history of crime in Indiana, offering a stark contrast to the nostalgic image of a simpler time in America's heartland. While the Midwest saw many changes betwe...

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  • HAUNTINGS OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
    JANE SIMON AMMESON
    Stories of the runaway slaves who left their spirits behind. "An easy read and an odd collection of tales of murders, mayhem, madness, and sadness." — Folklore Before the Civil War, a network of secret routes and safe houses crisscrossed the Midwest to help African Americans travel north to escape slavery. Although many slaves were able to escape to the safety of Canada, others...

    $200.00