Bibliograph

TEXAS TRUE CRIME MISCELLANY

Type

Label

TEXAS TRUE CRIME MISCELLANY

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

TEXAS TRUE CRIME MISCELLANY

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

True crime

Summary

Outrageous acts of villainy have slowly drifted out of the national limelight and into the dustbin of Texas history. Consider the uproar over the 1879 shooting of actor Maurice Barrymore in Marshall and the 1949 murder of oil field legend Tex Thornton in Amarillo. The 1909 Coryell County Courthouse massacre committed by a sixteen-year-old girl remains just as shocking today. For the long-suffering associates of repeat offenders like Fort Worth's Flapper Bandit or Temple's International Man of Mystery, notoriety couldn't fade quickly enough. From the lawless days of the frontier to the rise of organized crime, Clay Coppedge sifts through eighteen obscure case files to chart the evolution of crime and punishment in the state

Target audience

adult

Classification