Magical History Tour: Murder, Mystery, Buried History - Paperback

by Peter Bronson (Author)

Magical History Tour: Murder, Mystery and Buried History is a collection of short stories by popular author Peter Bronson, a former editor at The Cincinnati Enquirer.

As usual in his books, he surprises and entertains readers with long buried and forgotten nuggets of exciting people and events that shaped the region and the Midwest.

This short story collection is packed with exciting tales and vivid storytelling:

• In 1878, Cincinnati was shocked by a ghoulish crime: Graverobbers took the son of a former president from his fresh grave in North Bend. Detectives found the body hanging in a pit at the Ohio Medical College.
• In 1850, a young man from Wilmington, Ohio set off to join the Gold Rush in California. He named a city (Denver) and a state (Montana) and tamed "Bleeding Kansas" before the Civil War, yet few today know about him.
• Two young women died in a Cincinnati hotel room in 1877 after they were banished from the Whitewater Shaker Village north of Harrison. Was it suicide? Or murder? Why did the prosperous Society of Shakers vanish?
• The first woman in Ohio to be executed in the electric chair was a serial killer in Cincinnati. The "Black Widow" murders of lonely, elderly victims is one of the most chilling stories of heartless cruelty in local history.
• In 2008, a group of Kentucky lawyers went on trial in the Covington federal courthouse, and Cincinnati's "Master of Disaster" got stuck in the litigation tarpit that caused his downfall.
• PLUS: Ten Places to Discover Cincinnati History: The earliest cemeteries, log cabins, a Civil War camp and small museums with big stories to tell.