Gangster Queen Bonnie Parker and Other Murderous Women of Missouri
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Gangster Queen Bonnie Parker and Other Murderous Women of Missouri

  1. 158 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Gangster Queen Bonnie Parker and Other Murderous Women of Missouri

About this book

Killing is by no means a man's game in Missouri Bonnie Parker has been romanticized in print and on screen since the early 1930s, when she and gangster boyfriend Clyde Barrow robbed banks and left bodies in their wake. She's undoubtedly the most infamous murderous woman in Missouri history—although it's uncertain whether she killed anyone with her own hand—but she's in a crowded field of Show Me State female killers. The other women may not be etched in the public consciousness, but that makes them no less intriguing. They killed not in public with automatic rifles but in private, intimate situations with knives, pistols, and poison. Theirs are the stories of women scorned, of jealousy and love triangles, of abuse and self-defense. Join award-winning author Larry Wood as he chronicles these fascinating tales.

Information

Publisher
The History Press
Year
2026
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781467173155
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1. You Poke Me and I’ll Poke You: The Story of Mary Ball
  8. 2. Unlawfully Intimate: The Story of Martha Taylor
  9. 3. Alice Dyke: Cold-Blooded Murderer or Self-Defender?
  10. 4. “Kill the Son of a Bitch”: The Story of Blanche Connors
  11. 5. “I Have Killed Pete”: Maud Lewis Murders Her Lover
  12. 6. A Shotgun Wedding Turns Deadly: The Story of Lulu Prince
  13. 7. Always the Smile: The Remorseless Aggie Myers
  14. 8. Almost Like a Tigress: The Story of Annie Hunning
  15. 9. Clara Schweiger of Spotted Adder Snake Fame
  16. 10. “I Showed Him the Road”: The Story of Mary Appleby
  17. 11. An Honorable Girl: The Story of Ada Lee Biggs
  18. 12. “I Have Killed Him and I’m Glad I Did”: The Story of LaCulia Curry
  19. 13. Virgil Reece Takes the Gate: The Story of Gertrude Lytle
  20. 14. Bonnie Parker: The Auburn-Haired Bandit Queen
  21. 15. A Triangular Love Tangle: The Story of Ima Gaskin
  22. 16. The Mysterious Death of Grover Myers
  23. 17. Self-Defense or Murder? The Story of Iva Holden
  24. 18. Forty Years Behind Bars for a Crime She Didn’t Commit?
  25. 19. “Honey, Eve’s Here”: The Story of Evelyn Shire
  26. 20. “I Won’t Take That Anymore”: Debra Carson and the Battered Woman Syndrome
  27. Notes
  28. Bibliography
  29. Index
  30. About the Author

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