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Mysterious Chicago: History at Its Coolest

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Availability:In StockContributor:Adam SelzerPublish date:2016-10-25Pages:276
Language:EnglishPublisher:Skyhorse PublishingISBN-13:9781510713420ISBN-10:1510713425UPC:9781510713420Book Category:Travel, HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Special InterestBook Topic:Midwest, State & Local, Haunted & UnexplainedSize:8.80 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCV1G1B8A3
From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City's quirks and oddities, comes a compelling heavily researched anthology of the stories behind its most fascinating unsolved mysteries.

To create this unique volume, Selzer has collected forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to modern day. He has poured through all newspaper, magazine, and book references to them, and consulted expert historians. Topics covered include who really started the great Chicago fire, who was the first "automobile murderer," and even if there was actually a vampire slaying at Rose Hill cemetery.

The result is both a colorful read to get lost in, a window to a world of curiosity and wonder, as well as a volume that separates fact from fiction--true crime from urban legend.

Complementing the gripping stories Selzer presents are original images of the crime and its suspects as developed by its original investigators. Readers will marvel at how each character and crime were presented, and happily journey with Selzer as he presents all facts and theories presented at the time of the "crime" and uses modern hindsight to assemble the pieces.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Skyhorse PublishingISBN-13:9781510713420ISBN-10:1510713425UPC:9781510713420Book Category:Travel, HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Special InterestBook Topic:Midwest, State & Local, Haunted & UnexplainedSize:8.80 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCV1G1B8A3
Adam Selzer is the host of the Mysterious Chicago blog, podcasts, and tours, and has spent many years researching the more gruesome side of Chicago history--criminals, ghost stories, gangsters, mysteries, and folklore. He regularly writes Chicago history stories for websites such as TimeOut.com and Atlas Obscura, and speaks about it on WGN radio. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

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