This compendium of infamous crimes and spectacular violence presents the shocking history of homicide in the Palmetto State over the four decades on the cusp of our modern era that saw the demise of dueling, the rise and fall of lynching, and a proliferation of murder.

A sampling of the popular wit and insights of the Garrison Keillor of his era

A fascinating account of the early life of one of Australia's most colorful and controversial sons. John Hammond Moore trace film star Errol Flynn's turbulent career from his birth in sedate Hobart through his eccentric schooldays and his youth in Sydney and cruising the Pacific to his years as a pioneer tobacco planter in Papua and the discovery that led to Hollywood and stardom. The author comments: 'While his golden age in Hollywood produced wondrous swashbuckling, Errol Flynn was not really acting at all. He was merely transferring a natural style developed in Sydney, Port Moresby,...