Janis Thornton is the author of the true crime story Too Good a Girl; two cozy mysteries, Dust Bunnies & Dead Bodies and Dead Air & Double Dare; and a stand-alone mystery, Love, Lies, and Azure Eyes. In addition, she has produced three pictorial-history books in the Images of America series, highlighting Indiana's Tipton County and the cities of Elwood and Frankfort. She is a member of the national Sisters in Crime organization and its Indianapolis chapter, the Authors Guild, the Indianapolis Writers Center, and the Tipton County Historical Society. She is based in Tipton, Indiana. To see more of her work, visit [...] Twitter (@JanisThornton), and Facebook [...]

Forewords

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: All in the Family

1. The Mysterious Death of Belle Shenkenberger

2. The Liberation of Nora Coleman

3. 'Sweet Dreams, Mother'

PART II: Wife Killers

4. Dan Snider and the Strychnine Solution

5. The Case of the Drowsy Uxoricidist

6. Death on Maish Road

7. Chirka and Rasico

PART III: To Err Can Be Murder

8. Manhunt for the In-law Outlaws

9. The Black Sheep of Goldsmith

PART IV: Loved to Death

10. He Was Her Man, But He Done Her Wrong

11. Fairy's Grim Tale of the Murder on LaFountain

PART V: Deadly Decisions

12. Murder on Anderson and Main

13. The Strawtown Murders

14. Murder Unbecoming a Hero

PART VI: Worst of the Worst

15. The Awful Crime of Jesse McClure

16. Massacre on Laughery Creek

PART VII: Local Legends

17. The Legend of Kokomo Mayor H.C. Cole

18. Gun Girl

PART VIII: Unsolved but Unforgotten

19. Murder Most Foul

20. The Strange Death of Garnet Ginn