Download or read book Side by Side written by T.J. Ray and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true crime story of a gruesome double homicide in the Jim Crow South, and the manhunt and trial that followed. In Oxford, Mississippi, the dawn of the twentieth century seemed to present a sweeping landscape of progress and possibility. But under this veneer of technological advancement, cultural achievement, and prosperity lurked a stubborn core of racial discrimination, rampant criminal brutality, and violence. On a Sunday morning in 1901, the mutilated corpses of two federal marshals were discovered in the smoldering remains of the home of a notorious local malefactor. The murders, committed by moonshiner and counterfeiter Will Mathis and his father-in-law’s servant Orlando Lester, captivated the nation. The crimes ignited a manhunt, a trial marked by desperate lies and legerdemain, and a media frenzy around the hanging of a white man and a black man side by side. This enthralling account centers on two men—judged unequal in life but equal in death. The story draws on primary sources to craft a spellbinding narrative of singular immediacy and vitality. With the consummate skill of a master raconteur, author T. J. Ray powerfully evokes an era, a community, and its people.

Download or read book Murder and Moonshine written by Carol Miller and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young, recently-separated waitress at H & P's Diner in sleepy southwestern Virginia, Daisy hears more than her fair share of neighborhood gossip while serving plates of hash and peach cobbler. But when a reclusive old man, Dickerson, shows up at the diner one day, only to drop dead a few minutes later, Daisy quickly learns that some secrets are more dangerous to keep than others--especially when there's money and moonshine involved. Daisy finds herself caught between whiskey and guns; a handsome ATF agent and a moonshine-brewing sweet talker; and a painful past and a dangerous present. Not sure any longer who she can trust, Daisy must turn sleuth while also protecting her sick mother and keeping a handle on Aunt Emily, her goading, trigger-happy landlord.

Download or read book Moonshine Murders written by Karen Cartwright and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moonshine Murders By: Karen Cartwright Moonshine Murders centers around the Cartwright family of Mannington, West Virginia, in 1877 with Thornton F. Cartwright at its head. He walks a tight rope between murder trials, crooked whiskey, passing the queer, and vigilantes, trying to keep his family intact all the while operating a moonshine gang out of Marion County. Nancy Cartwright is the local Granny Woman in Marion County. She is every bit as resolute and passionate as her husband when it comes to family. Nor have advancing years lessened Thornton and Nancy's passion for each other.

Download or read book A Nip of Murder written by Carol Miller and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As Daisy McGovern knows all too well, it isn't easy being a young, small town waitress at the local diner. And it becomes even harder just as she's trying to stitch her life back together and salvage her job by converting the diner into a bakery when a mysterious robbery occurs and one of the thieves ends up dead on the bakery floor with a chef's knife in his chest"--

Download or read book An Old Fashioned Murder written by Carol Miller and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The next in this charming Southern mystery series featuring a closed-room murder in an old Victorian inn during a snowstorm"--

Download or read book The Moonshine Shack Murder written by Diane Kelly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intoxicating new cozy mystery series, the future for modern-day moonshiner Hattie Hayes looks bright--until death darkens the doorstep of her Moonshine Shack. The Hayes family has made moonshine in Chattanooga since the days of Prohibition, and Hattie is happy to continue the tradition, serving up fun, fruity flavors in mason jars for locals and tourists alike. All signs indicate her new 'shine shop will be a smashing success. What's more, mounted police officer Marlon Landers has taken a shine to Hattie. For the first time ever, the stars seemed to have aligned in both her work and romantic life. But when a body ends up on her store's doorstep alongside a broken jar of her Firefly Moonshine, it just might be lights out for her fledgling business. The homicide detective can't seem to identify the person who killed the owner of a nearby bar. The only witness is Hattie's longhaired gray cat, and Smoky isn't talking. When the detective learns that the victim and Hattie had a heated exchange shortly before his murder, she becomes her prime suspect. Lest Hattie end up behind bars like her bootlegging great-grandfather a century before, she must distill the evidence herself and serve the killer a swift shot of justice.

Download or read book Moonshine Murder written by E S Jameson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1925. The small cabin deep in the San Juan Mountains is the only home seventeen-year-old Lenora Giovanni has ever known. But when her father dies from tainted moonshine, leaving her alone, she is forced into a life of danger. Lenora is determined to find whoever sold the poison to her father, a determination that leads her into working as an undercover agent in the town of Durango, Colorado. She meets Rusty, a young moonshine who guides her through the world of bootlegging. As Lenora gets to know this intriguing young man, three things become clear: Her father was entangled in a scheme of deception. Rusty is keeping secrets about her past. And she is falling irrationally and unconditionally in love with him. Faced with betrayal, Lenora is tempted to protect Rusty and preserve her father's memory, rather than bust the illegal moonshine business that destroyed her family. How will she choose: with her head or her heart?

Download or read book Moonshine Murder written by Kathleen Brooks and published by Laurens Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoey Mathers had everything going for her until one night she lost her biggest client, her job, and her reputation. Leaving her life up to fate, Zoey closed her eyes and pointed. She would serve out her career exile in the small mountain town of Moonshine Hollow where moonshine flowed as freely as a mountain stream. Giving up the law to become a baker in Moonshine Hollow turned out to be the best thing Zoey had ever done. She was happy and enjoying life in her new small town. But Zoey should have learned the first time . . . one night can change your whole life. After unknowingly crashing a battle between witches, Zoey accidentally becomes a witch herself. That’s all before Zoey stumbles over a murder victim and the town’s sheriff becomes involved. Now she’s trying to find a murderer, stop two old witches from playing matchmaker, and learning she’s way more than a mere accidental witch. And that’s all before fate turns up one more sexy hunk of a twist . . .

Download or read book Moonshine Murder and Mountaineers written by Allen Cook and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the turn of the twentieth century, a rural county located in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains made national headlines as the most lawless place in America. Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians' Willie Parker Peace History Book Award, Moonshine, Murder & Mountaineers: The Wildest County in America recounts a time when moonshiners and desperadoes faced off against lawmen in epic battles that made national headlines. The book focuses on actual events from an area in western North Carolina that held the reputation as the wildest county in America. With a masterful blend of entertaining stories supported by historical documentation, the reader is given an exciting account of true events.Moonshine, Murder & Mountaineers also provides readers with historical and genealogical reference points. The names of real people are used throughout the book. An index of names is provided for ancestry research. Old newspaper and court documents are quoted on numerous occasions and provide a solid historical reference point to the accounts. The book is written in a format to both entertain and inform. Entertaining and exciting stories are followed by a chapter documenting historically accurate research. This format takes the reader back in time through vivid short stories and allows one to make their own opinion of the events based on the facts. Moonshine, Murder & Mountaineers: The Wildest County in America will prove to be a fun and informative read!

Download or read book Moonshine and Murder or Legends and Lies written by Wendy Hazle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of June 13, 1937, gunfire shattered the peace at Owens Chapel Baptist Church. Amid the screams and blood, one man lay dead, another stumbled out of the church with a bullet in his chest. Bertha Perry struggled to control the bleeding from her abdomen, and Lorene Potter labored to breath through collapsed lungs. Others were surprised to find themselves bleeding from stray bullets. What caused two men to open fire in a church crowded with the faithful gathered for the start of Revival Week? Both men had family not more than 15 feet from where they began their deadly gunfight. What secrets brought tragedy to so many families in that terrifying ten minutes? Moonshine and Murder or Legends and Lies will shed light on the tragedy that has haunted Lawrence County for almost 80 years.

Download or read book Moonshine Murder written by Erin S. Gray and published by WhoooDoo Mysteries. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Moonshine Murder and Mountaineers written by Janie Ledford Cook and published by Chestnut Ridge. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Killing Moonshine Mullins written by Oakley Dean Baldwin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story explores my mother's first cousin three times removed, Ira "Bad Ira" Mullins and the Pound Gap Massacre. This story was handed down to my mother who enlightened me, as I have done with my children. This story is one of the wildest stories ever told to me as well as one of my absolute favorites. The Mullins families were early settlers to Letcher County, Kentucky, Wise County, Virginia, and parts of southern West Virginia.

Download or read book Moonshine Murder written by Betty La Pierre and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawkman is very suspicious of the Hutchinsons, and worries when his wife, Jennifer, becomes fond of this dysfunctional family. He does some clandestine investigating and discovers a copper still on the property. It isn't long before a murder takes place and the Hutchinson family disappears. They couldn't have gone far, as their only means of transportation was a buckboard drawn by a couple of horses. However, they've eluded everyone, and Hawkman makes plans to discover where they went.

Download or read book MURDER AT THE MOONSHINE INN written by Maggie King and published by Koehler Books. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When high-powered executive Roxanne Howard dies in a pool of blood outside the Moonshine Inn in Richmond, the victim's sister enlists Hazel Rose to ferret out the killer. Brad Jones, Rox's husband, is the prime suspect. He's also Hazel's cousin, and Hazel believes in doing anything to help family.

Download or read book Murder and Mountain Justice in the Moonshine Capital of the World written by Phillip Andrew Gibbs and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Story of Hard Spirits and Defiant Souls Franklin County, Virginia has long been known as the Moonshine Capital of the World. That history can seem romantic, but the county has a dark and violent past. The descendants of the Scots-Irish who settled its rugged mountains openly defied the law and employed their own notions of justice to defend their traditions and livelihood. During Prohibition, the production of moonshine skyrocketed, but the liquor didn't stop flowing from the mountains when the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed. County and state officials struggled to maintain order in a region where unsolved murders, strange disappearances, and senseless killings were a way of life. The peak came in 1978, with nine murders linked to moonshine and drugs in the county. Historian and Virginia native Phillip Andrew Gibbs tells story of that horrific year and the history behind it.

Download or read book Moonshine Murder and Mayhem in Georgia written by Olin Jackson and published by Legacy Communications. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of bizarre, grisly and breath-taking incidents which have occurred in Georgia over the past 200 years. All of the accounts are true and factual. Information collected by reliable researchers from historic newspaper articles, court records, legal documents, personal interviews and first-person accounts. Includes over 400 amazing period photographs. Includes full-name and subject indexes for reference purposes.