Download or read book Gilded Age Murder Mayhem in the Berkshires written by Andrew K. Amelinckx and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This criminal history of the Berkshires is brimming with unforgettable stories of greed, jealousy, and madness from the turn of the twentieth century. The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts are known for their picturesque beauty, but this history offers a fascinating look at the region’s dark side. This chronicle includes true tales of greed, betrayal and violence in The Bay State. In the summer of 1893, a tall and well-dressed burglar plundered the massive summer mansions of the upper crust . . . A visit from President Teddy Roosevelt in 1902 ended in tragedy when a trolley car smashed into the presidential carriage, killing a Secret Service agent . . . A psychotic millworker opened fire on a packed streetcar, leaving three dead and five wounded, shocking the nation . . . These and many more stories—from axe murders to botched bank jobs—paint a stark portrait of the inequities that shadowed the extravagance of the Gilded Age.
Download or read book Murder in the Berkshires written by Glady D. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pittsfield s Fosburgh Murder Mystery written by Frank J. Leskovitz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of one of the most scandalous unsolved murders at the turn of the nineteenth century: the killing of twenty-four-year-old May Fosburgh. Shots rang out in a prominent Pittsfield family home on the morning of August 20, 1900, ending the life of young socialite May Fosburgh. Who pulled the trigger was unclear, and the scandal captivated attention well beyond the Berkshires. Her brother was a top suspect, but the distraught family claimed an intruder was to blame. Investigators, media and the public struggled to make sense of conflicting details, including suspicious gunpowder residue, as the mystery remained unsolved. Author Frank J. Leskovitz unravels the tale that still lingers in the hills generations later. Includes photos! “A clear, thorough account of this old crime . . . The book respects the dead but also respects the interest readers take in the past.” —Greenfield Recorder
Download or read book Berkshire Murders written by John Kiste and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berkshire Murders is an examination of some of the county's most notorious and shocking cases. They include Hannah Carey, beaten to death by her husband at Warfield in 1851; young Hannah Gould, whose throat was cut by her father in a frenzied attack at Windsor in 1861; Nell Woodridge, murdered by her husband in 1896 and later immortalised in Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol; Annie Davis, killed by her lover in 1912; and Minnie Freeman Lee, whose body was discovered in a trunk in 1940. John Van der Kiste's carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to all those interested in the darker side of Berkshire.
Download or read book Berkshire Murders written by Ian McLoughlin and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Commitment written by Roger Long and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murder at Highfields written by Andrea Kress and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A local judge is shot dead in a house full of suspects. Can a curious young nurse uncover the truth before someone else dies? Berkshire Mountains, Massachusetts, 1931. Aggie Burnside is ready for her next chapter. But when her New York job falls through unexpectedly, the registered nurse jumps at another opportunity and moves to her best friend's hometown. Though she's barely settled into the small community before she's entangled in the local judge's shocking murder. With the dead man's shooting going unheard in a house full of secrets and suspects, Aggie's sharp curiosity pulls her deep into a long list of possible motives. But as a clueless inspector bungles the case and false leads muddle the investigation, the novice detective and her bestie sidekick step up to find the culprit before the evidence disappears forever. Can Aggie get a confession before the killer escapes justice? Murder at Highfields is the lively first book in the Berkshires Cozy mystery series. If you like good-hearted heroines, delightful doses of humor, and smart surprises, then you'll love Andrea Kress's fast-moving whodunit. Buy Murder at Highfields to untangle a treacherous scheme today!
Download or read book Christmas Recipe for Murder written by Andrea Kress and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An isolated mansion, an eccentric host, squabbling siblings, and a snowstorm. What could possibly go wrong? Young nurse Aggie Burnside and her doctor boyfriend are asked for a holiday weekend in a remote mansion in Vermont to calm the nerves of the threatened owner. But their hostess, a wealthy widow and renowned romance writer, has other plans for her guests. With a series of games, she hopes to reveal who is out to kill her, but to everyone's shock, someone else dies first. Revel in the atmosphere of a 1931 New England winter, the extravagant house, tales of a Scottish curse, sumptuous meals, and more suspects than you can shake a stick at. Will Aggie's curiosity catch the killer or put her into more danger? Christmas Recipe for Murder is the lively third book in the Berkshires Cozy mystery series. If you like good-hearted heroines, delightful doses of humor, and smart surprises, then you'll love Andrea Kress's fast-moving whodunit. Buy Christmas Recipe for Murder to untangle a treacherous scheme today!
Download or read book Berkshire Tales of Mystery and Murder written by David Kidd-Hewitt and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of local ghost stories and murder cases from across the county.
Download or read book Shuntoll Road written by Leslie Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's June in the Berkshires, a beautiful month when everything is lush and green. Bostonian Kathryn Stinson returns to see if she and New Nottingham local, Earl Barker, can rebuild their romantic relationship. She's barely arrived when New York real estate developer, Niall Corrigan, takes over the property she's been renting with plans to turn it into an upscale development. Kathryn's opposition to the development pits her against Earl, offered the job of clearing the land. Amid escalating violence, a fire breaks out in the woods and the burned body of another opponent is discovered. Did he die trying to escape a fire he set, or did someone else start the fire to cover up his murder? Other questions swirl around Corrigan's connection to Kathryn's new friend, Gwen Waite. The happily married wife of a local, Gwen is a role model for Kathryn. But is Gwen's marriage truly happy? And what was the mysterious "accident" that caused Gwen to flee New York years ago? Kathryn's search for answers puts her in grave danger.
Download or read book The James Joyce Murder written by Amanda Cross and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1987-02-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Kate Fansler is vacationing in the sweet and harmless Berkshires, sorting through the letters of Henry James. But when her next-door neighbor is murdered, and all her houseguests are prime suspects, her idyll turns prosaic, indeed....
Download or read book Pittsfield s Fosburgh Murder Mystery Scandal in the Berkshires written by Frank J. Leskovitz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shots rang out in a prominent Pittsfield family home on the morning of August 20, 1900, ending the life of young socialite May Fosburgh. Who pulled the trigger was unclear, and the scandal captivated attention well beyond the Berkshires. Her brother was a top suspect, but the distraught family claimed an intruder was to blame. Investigators, media and the public struggled to make sense of conflicting details, including suspicious gunpowder residue, as the mystery remained unsolved. Author Frank J. Leskovitz unravels the tale that still lingers in the hills generations later.
Download or read book C B Greenfield written by Lucille Kallen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1983-05-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several strange happenings, followed by the instant death of a master violinist, turn a few days of pleasure with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood into another crackling case for highly cultivated newspaper owner C.B. Greenfield and his sleuthing sidekick, chief reporter Maggie Rome.
Download or read book Body Dump written by Fred Rosen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of an upstate New York serial killer who abducted, raped, and murdered women and hid their bodies in his home. In the late 1990s in Poughkeepsie, New York, prostitutes began to go missing off the streets of the old Hudson River town. Due to the women’s nomadic lifestyles, which many people condemned, few in the town noticed they were gone besides their families and Lieutenant Bill Siegrist, who suspected that a serial killer was behind the disappearances. Local prostitutes described a strange man lurking around, leading Siegrist to Kendall Francois, an overweight, slovenly middle school hall monitor nicknamed Stinky. Police brought in Francois for a lie detector test, which he passed, and they were forced to release him. Area women continued to disappear. In a shocking twist of fate, Francois was finally arrested when a woman he had raped managed to escape from his house and ran into a roadblock set up by Siegrist. She led the police back to Francois’s home, and the hall monitor soon gave a full confession and cut a deal with the prosecution. By then, cops in Tyvek suits had already found eight bodies concealed in the attic and crawl space of Francois’s house of horrors. To this day, one victim is still missing. From the author of numerous true crime books, including Lobster Boy and Deacon of Death, this is the frightening story of a brutal murderer whose neighbors never suspected what was going on behind his front door.
Download or read book Whitewash in the Berkshires written by Jacqueline T. Lynch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elmer and Juliet's fourth adventure in this cozy mystery series takes place in Hartford, Connecticut, and the Berkshires of western Massachusetts in the bleak midwinter of 1951. An incident from Juliet's past puts her on a blacklist. A priceless work of art brings her to a secret bunker. A kidnapping and a threat to her life result in a desperate chase. How does all this fit in with the unidentified corpse? Elmer has no idea, but he's right behind her. The partnership of the wealthy heiress and the ex-con continues in this fourth book in the Double V Mysteries series.
Download or read book Murder at Plimoth Plantation written by Leslie Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determined to prove her niece innocent of murder, Miranda Lewis starts nosing into the lives of the "interpreters" at the famous seventeenth-century village in Plymouth, Massachusetts and soon discovers a sordid history of spilled blood, vengeance and a killer bent on a very permanent kind of reenactment.
Download or read book Murder Gets the Boot written by Mike Bartosik and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Berkshires of western Massachusetts have it all: beauty, culture, charm... and a dead body! When software engineer Larry Goodwin is found lying in a pool of his own blood in his company's main office building, the Pittsfield city police are called in to investigate. So is private investigator Barry Dunleavy. Dunleavy's job is to not only help find the murderer but also to protect the company's public image. The assignment brings him into contact with unsavory criminals, colorful politicians and friendly, as well as not-so-friendly, police. Helping Dunleavy are the only two people he can really trust: his sharp-as-a-tack girlfriend and an ex-drug dealing computer nerd. Traveling across the Berkshires, one of America's favorite vacation spots, may seem an idyllic way to spend your time, but for Dunleavy it's just one part of the job. The other part is staying alive long enough to find the killer!
