Murder Among the Mighty: Celebrity Sightings That Shocked America

by Jay Robert Nash

Overview

In this riveting book of celebrity murders Jay Robert Nash provides keen insights into the mind of the murderer, and has carefully researched each murder to bring new facts to light. He devotes a chapter to each celebrity murder spanning from the slaying of Big Jim Fisk in 1872 up through the poisoning of Sunny Von Bulow in 1982. This is a fascinating account of how the other side lives...and kills.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590775295
Publisher:	M. Evans & Company
Publication date:	03/05/1983
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Jay Robert Nash is the bestselling author of Bloodletters and Badmen, Hustlers and Con Men, and the Almanac of True Crime. He received a special Edgar Allen Poe award in 1991 for his Encyclopedia of World Crime. He lives in Wilmette, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Edward S. "Ned" Stokes: SLayer of Big Jim Fisk (1872)
2. Carlyle Harris: Killer of a Secret Wife (1893)
3. Harry K. Thaw: The Millionaire Murderer (1906)
4. Dora Feldman McDonald: Murder for Love (1907)
5. Dr. Bennett Clarke Hyde: The Lethal Inheritance (1909)
6. Stanley Ketchel: Murder of a Champion (1910)
7. Charles Chapin: Debts That Killed (1918)
8. Kid McCoy: The Marrying Murderer (1924)
9. Arnold Rothstein: A Bullet for Mr. Big (1928)
10. Alfred "Jake" Lingle: End of a Tycoon Reporter
11. Jerry Buckley: Crusade of Death (1930)
12. Thelma Todd: A Silver Screen Mystery (1935)
13. Henry C. Heinz: One Burglary Too Many (1943)
14. The Turner-Stompanato Killing: A Family Affair (1958)
15. Candace Mossler: Millions and Murder (1964)
16. Tom Neal: The Self-Destructive Actor (1965)
17. Ramon Novarro: A Perversion That Killed (1968)
18. John S. Knight III: Death from Pleasure (1975)
19. Sal Mineo: The Murder of a Rebel (1976)
20. Claudine Longet: A Case of "Criminally Negligent Homicide" (1976)
21. Dan White: Death at the Seat of Power (1978)
22. Jean Struven Harris: A Wronged Woman's Fury (1980)
23. Allard Lowenstein: Death of a Do-Gooder (1980)
24. Dorothy Stratten: The Rise and Fall of a Playmate (1980)
25. Everett Clarke: Murder on the Stage (1980)
26. Michael J. Halberstam: The Genius-to-Genius Murder (1980)
27. John Lennon: The Slaying of a Superstar (1980)
28. Claus von Bulow: Injecting the Big Sleep (1980)