Community hub
0 subscribers7 pages, 0 posts
Recent from talks
All channels
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Contribute something
Welcome to the community hub built to collect knowledge and have discussions related to Wisconsin Murders.
Nothing was collected or created yet.
Wisconsin Murders
View on Wikipediafrom Wikipedia
Wisconsin Murders is a collection of true crime accounts written by author August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 1,958 copies. The stories detail sixteen cases of sudden death in Wisconsin for 1842 to 1926. Three of the accounts had appeared previously in American Weekly and Saint Mystery Magazine.
Key Information
Contents
[edit]Wisconsin Murders contains the following accounts:
- "Foreword"
- "Caffee Was A Gallowsbird"
- "An Affair in Council"
- "A Jury of His Peers"
- "A Way With the Ladies"
- "Coincidence and Dr. Garner"
- "The Tribulations of Sarah Ingersoll"
- "A Rival to Xantippe"
- "A Slight Case of Perjury"
- "'Hell Hath No Fury...'"
- "A Village Borgia"
- "La Follette for the Prosecution"
- "The Dog in the Night-Time"
- "Dear Grace"
- "Hart Gets His Man"
- "Christmas Package"
- "The Wolf at the Church Social"
References
[edit]- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 90. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 845.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 182. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 153. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
