Villains, scoundrels, and rogues : incredible true tales of mischief and mayhem
Summary
"Everyone loves a good villain! From the back pages of history, vivid, entertaining portraits of little-known scoundrels whose misdeeds range from the simply inept to the truly horrifying. Even if you're an avid history buff, you've probably never heard of this disreputable cast of characters: A dru... Full description
- Machine generated contents note: CONTENTS/CAST OF CHARACTERS
- VILLAINS:
- Merchant of Misery
- James DeWolf
- The Cutthroat Captain of Cave-In-Rock
- Samuel Mason
- Architect of a Tragedy
- John Chivington
- The Late, Unlamented Little Pete
- Fong Ching
- The Killer They Called Hell's Belle
- Belle Sorensen Gunness
- Partners in Perfidy
- Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
- Chicago's Florist-Mobster
- Dean O'Banion
- A Huckster's Rise and Fall
- John Brinkley
- Hitchcock's Hideous Inspiration
- Ed Gein
- SCOUNDRELS:
- Salem's Rabid Witch-Hunter
- William Stoughton
- Uncle Daniel the "Speckerlator"
- Daniel Drew
- Unleashing the James-Younger Gang
- James Lane
- Lincoln's Missing Bodyguard
- John Parker
- Squirrel Tooth Alice
- Libby Thompson
- The Lawman Who Went Bad
- Burt Alvord
- The Very Mellow Yellow Kid
- Joseph Weil
- You Bet Your Life
- Alvin Thomas
- Keeper of the Immaculate Sperm
- Charles Davenport
- The Silken Voice of Treachery
- Mildred Gillars
- ROGUES:
- Who's that Rapping On My Floor?
- Maggie and Kate Fox
- The Witch of Wall Street
- Hetty Green
- King of the Cannibal Islands
- David O'Keefe
- Master Salesman of a Dubious Legend
- Herbert Bridgman
- The Consummate Gold Digger
- Peggy Hopkins Joyce
- The Mad, Sad Poet of Greenwich Village
- Maxwell Bodenheim
- The Bifurcated Congressman
- Samuel Dickstein
- The Frugal Counterfeiter
- Emerich Juettner
- Imperfect Pitch
- Don Lapre.