Tom Carr

Broschiertes Buch

MI Bad

Robbers, Cutthroats & Thieves in Michigan's Past & Present

Beschreibung

Train robberies, stage-coach holdups, posses, breakouts and shoot-em-ups step out of the darker pages of Michigan's past and spring to life in Tom Carr's MI Bad: Robbers, Cutthroats and Thieves in Michigan's Past and Present. The Great Lakes State has seen more than its share of sensational crimes in the last couple of centuries. MI Bad shines a searchlight on several of the most jaw-dropping capers and rogues, including: • A couple of 1880s prostitution procurers who roll drunken lumberjacks for their wages in a whorehouse and bury bodies in shallow graves. The two die drunk and destitute in a freezing shack. • Baby Face Nelson gets his big-time career start - with an actual baby - in a bank holdup in Depression-era Grand Haven. • A 1970s, cinema-esque escape from Jackson State Prison that falls apart quickly once outside the razor wire. • Train robbing brothers who get away with fortunes all over the Midwest, until one of them puts a bullet in the head of a well-liked Grand Rapids cop. • A 1960s cop and a 2010s fifth-grade teacher break bad. • Huge posses of armed Michiganders rush out to help - and sometimes hinder - a bank stickup. • A 19th Century U.P. boomtown finally has enough of a brothel owner beating the women he holds captive. • Plus many more blood-and-money tales of Wolverine-state intrigue, suspense or just plain awfulness. MI Bad is author Tom Carr's follow-up to his successful, Michigan historical true crime debut, Blood on the Mitten: Infamous Michigan Murders, 1700s-Present, also published by Mission Point Press/Chandler Lake Books.

Autor

THIS IS TOM CARR'S THIRD BOOK FOR MISSION POINT PRESS on history and/or true crime in Michigan. Before Covid-19 hit, he travelled the state telling many of the stories in his books, and some that aren't, at libraries and service club meetings. He's looking forward to resuming that after the pandemic subsides. Carr is an independent writer and journalist in Northern Michigan who spent 25 years in daily newspapers, primarily the Traverse City Record-Eagle. He's won journalistic awards for his investigative reporting, feature writing, breaking news and humor columns. Carr often covered police, courts and crime. As a freelancer, Carr has branched out into other media and has reported and produced several stories for Interlochen Public Radio and has had his work broadcast on NPR and Michigan Radio, as well. His work has appeared in the Detroit Free Press, the New York Daily News, traverseticker.com, Traverse Magazine and other media. Tom Carr is author of Blood on the Mitten: Infamous Michigan Murders, 1700s-Present, MI BAD: Robbers, Cutthroats & Thieves in Michigan's Past & Present and was a contributing writer for Inside Upnorth, a Traverse City area travel guide published by Mission Point Press. Carr lives and quarantines near Buckley, Michi-gan with his wife, Maria, where they raised their two sons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mission Point Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9781943995837
• ISBN-10: 1943995834
• Artikelnr.: 57623641