"Ghost of 22 Mountain" is the story of a woman who met death under mysterious circumstances when she was still young. The story is set in the mountains of West Virginia where the victim was born and lived. Of the dozens of people who might have committed the crime of murder, only one paid the price. He was a young black who served as handyman in the urban estate where Mamie Thurman lived with her husband, the policeman on the downtown beat of Logan, West Virginia.

It is not likely that Clarence Stephenson was the guilty party, even if he were involved in a most unlikely way in the...

Were the Rosenbergs really guilty of the charges that led to their execution?

Was Cricket Coogler really a part of the mob activity smuggling narcotics into the country from Mexico?

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Describing a journey across China to Burma, this vivid and precise account follows Australian-born foreign correspondent George Morrison on his travels beginning in 1894. Dressed in Chinese garb and engaging guides and servants as needed, Morrison traveled by riverboat, sedan chair, mule, pony, and, mostly, on foot. A gripping adventure tale, this recollection offers an early foreign description of the Chinese interior.