In August 1878, a Jersey City policeman is found bludgeoned and stabbed to death in his own bed, supposedly while his wife lay sleeping beside him unaware. Suspicion immediately falls on the wife and her suspected teenage paramour. Did a twenty-something Jersey girl from the rural farmlands turn city-girl killer? Canary in a Cage: The Smith-Bennett Murder Case is historical fiction based on the true story of the violent killing of Officer Richard Harrison Smith whose wife Jenny Woolley Smith was accused of the murder, arrested and faced the hangman's noose along with a local boy hopelessly...
In August 1878, a Jersey City policeman is found bludgeoned and stabbed to death in his own bed, supposedly while his wife lay sleeping beside him una...
Young & Wicked is the story of William Flannelly and his "girl" Polly Sexton. Willie and Polly started down the wrong path early and spent (more properly "misspent") their youth slaloming down the slippery slope of petty criminality and anti-social behavior. They fled their homes in Jersey City to escape arrest and with the intention of disappearing into the shadows of Manhattan's Bowery district. In the end, they not only disappeared, they lost themselves, one in body and the other in soul.
Young & Wicked is the story of William Flannelly and his "girl" Polly Sexton. Willie and Polly started down the wrong path early and spent (more prope...
