Great American Crime Stories

True American crimes, the legendary and the long-forgotten -Range of historical crimes: murder, piracy, Wild West outlaws, mafia crime, and more -Lyons Press American Classics deliver stories rooted in their time, place, and topic -Distinct series design for impulse- and collect-them-all sales The Bloody Benders Family . . . The Black Hand of New Orleans . . . The Crimes of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch . . . The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah . . . Rachel Wall, Female Pirate and The Last Woman to be Hanged in Massachusetts . . . The Rise of New York's Organized Crime . . . and even a crime chronicled by President Abraham Lincoln. This criminal collection of Lyons Press American Classics delivers the murderous, thieving, and otherwise nefarious acts we love to read about--all from our deep history and in a book that makes a great gift as part of Lyons Press's outstanding Americana library.