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Murder in Old Kentucky: True Crime Stories from the Bluegrass (Expanded and Revised)

by Keven McQueen

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Kentucky history through its most notorious killings

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Kentucky history through its most notorious killings

Keven McQueen gathers historical Kentucky homicide cases, using crimes that once commanded headlines to trace a darker strand of the state’s past. The expanded and revised edition ranges from the 1825 killing of Col. Solomon Sharp—an event linked in the description to later literary figures—to the 1881 Ashland Tragedy and accounts of arson, family violence, and unresolved-looking domestic scenes. With cases drawn from different moments in Kentucky history, the book frames true crime as a record of local events, public scandal, and the lasting stories attached to them.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • True-crime readers interested in historical cases
  • Readers of Kentucky and regional history
  • Those interested in crime stories drawn from newspaper-era headlines

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Kentucky historyHistorical murder casesPublic scandalArson and violenceLocal true crime

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Book overview

Kentucky--land of bluegrass, horse racing, bourbon, and . . . murder.

In Murder in Old Kentucky: True Crime Stories from the Bluegrass, Keven McQueen recounts dark and disturbing tales from the pages of Kentucky history, including the 1825 murder of Col. Solomon Sharp--a sordid affair that inspired Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Penn Warren--and the 1881 Ashland Tragedy, a heartbreaking murder of three innocent teenagers. This revised and expanded edition includes the story of a family terrorized by an arsonist who massacred eleven of their members and burned the property of even more, the tale of a husband and wife found shot in each other's arms with a life-sized photo of another man between them, and many more deaths that made headlines.

Meticulously researched and written with McQueen's trademark humor, Murder in Old Kentucky will captivate any fan of true crime or Kentucky history.

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