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^ Read ^ Deaths on Pleasant Street by Giles Fowler ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Deaths on Pleasant Street "Easy-to-follow story of interest to anyone that knows the Kansas" according to Steven J Stokes. Easy-to-follow story of interest to anyone that knows the Kansas City area. Vocabulary is interesting enough to paint a vivid picture of the characters in the story.. Couldn't put this book down. M. Nichols Hard to imagine that a report of deaths that happened a hundred years ago can result in a page-turner, but that exactly describes "Deaths on Pleasant Street," a compelling report of the suspicious
| Title | : | Deaths on Pleasant Street |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (652 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1931112916 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
-Patrick Beach. This book gathers the facts behind the suspicious fates of three Swope family members: the eccentric Colonel, millionaire donor of Kansas City, Missouri s Swope Park, his affable cousin, and a young nephew and heir. Charged with poisoning the Colonel and suspected of multiple other attempted murders, Dr. It has been 100 years since multiple tragedies befell members of the prominent Swope family in Independence, Missouri. Deaths on Pleasant Street will captivate history buffs and whodunnit fans alike. The 1909 murder case surrounding the wealthy Swope family of Independence, Missouri, gripped newspaper readers throughout the nation. Poring through a trove of historic manuscripts, legal records and the delicious yellow journalism of the era, Fowler has done graceful service to the dead by telling the tale with a consistent and unfailing writerly flair more fully and fairly than it was ever told, or could possibly have been told, at the time. -Charles Gusewelle The trail of western Missouri's crime of the twentieth century may be stone cold, but Giles Fowler's master sleuthing and briskly paced narrative restore this still-unsolved country-house mystery to vivid life. But Deaths on Pleasant Street gives th
Did an in-law to the wealthy and influential Swope family murder those who stood in the way of his wife's full inheritance, poisoning some and infecting others with typhoid? The stories of exactly what happened don't just diverge they turn on each other and collide (p. Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, Deaths on Pleasant Street is true-crime that reads like a cross between Agatha Christie and Stephen King. --The Kansas City StarFowler used the investigative skills he learned as a long-time Kansas City journalist, bringing together newspaper accounts, court testimony, and memoirs to reconstruct the crimes and guess at their motivations. --Kansas History . --The Ames TribuneGiles Fowler s Deaths on Pleasant Street, which retells and examines this real-life crime, has elements of great Gothic fiction. A
Fowler currently resides in Ames, Iowa, and has contributed academic articles to Journalism Educator and Journalism Quarterly as well as short fiction to the Sewanee Review. Born in Kansas City in 1934, Giles Fowler joined the city s prominent newspaper, the Kansas City Star, following his graduation from the Columb
"Easy-to-follow story of interest to anyone that knows the Kansas" according to Steven J Stokes. Easy-to-follow story of interest to anyone that knows the Kansas City area. Vocabulary is interesting enough to paint a vivid picture of the characters in the story.. Couldn't put this book down. M. Nichols Hard to imagine that a report of deaths that happened a hundred years ago can result in a page-turner, but that exactly describes "Deaths on Pleasant Street," a compelling report of the suspicious death of one of Kansas City's most famous benefactors, the multi-millionaire Colonel Swope, whose generosity gave Kansas City its landmark Swope Park. Did Col. Swope die at the hands of his niece's husband, Bennett Clark Hyde, a well-regarded doctor who was scheduled to become the preside. Kathleen F. Hayes said A eally murder mystery. You be the judge.. In the late 1800's, Colonlel Thomas Swope made his money in mining and moved to the Kansas City area in Missouri. His brother and sister-in-law, Maggie Swope, lived in Independence, MO., which at that time, was the large city and County seat. He bought a large parcel of farm land, sold it off into smaller parcels and made his fortune. This area became downtown Kansas City. He donated a large parcel to the city to become a park, Swope Park.After the death of Maggie's husband, Col. S
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