Keven McQueen digs up ten forgotten true-crime tales from Louisville’s rough-and-tumble decades after the Civil War, when the city’s growing rail yards, alleys, and brothels hid a darker side of its rise as a regional hub.
The cases range from a butcher’s murder trial and grim public hanging to the exploits of a criminal duo dubbed Louisville’s own Bonnie and Clyde, told with the same wry, storytelling voice McQueen brings to his other Kentucky true-crime books.
Published 2012
112 pages
$19.10