"Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else." So begins a chapter of this sharp, fearless collection from a master storyteller. Revisiting seventeen Chicago murder cases-including that of Belva and Beulah, two murderesses whose trials inspired the musical Chicago-Michael Lesy captur[...]
The remarkable cult classic about life in a small, tum-of-the-century Wisconsin town is "compelling both as history and as literature, it is a small masterpiece of the historian's art."--Chicago Daily News[...]