Archive for 'Short Feature Story'
Charleston’s Most Inhospitable Hosts: The Story of John and Lavinia Fisher
Guest Post by Harry Parsons, Content Manager, Arcadia Publishing We all know the horror film trope: the motel, the inn, the guesthouse at the side of the road that is, for some reason, curiously empty. The friendly, welcoming, eager proprietors who usher you in and tell you to make yourself at home, but somehow […]
Posted: August 18th, 2017 under Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1800s, bizarre
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Vintage Detective Story: The Stackhouse Case, 1916
Story by A. ANDERSON (Private Detective), Principal Southern Detective Agency, Tampa, Florida, (formerly with Scotland Yard, London, England), and, Dalton O’Sullivan, Detective and Author of Enemies of the Underworld, 1917. Early in April of the year 1916, I was summoned to Boca Grande by the president of the C. H. & N. railroad. The […]
Posted: August 8th, 2017 under Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1900-1919, Florida, Vintage Detective Stories
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Vintage Detective Story: The Conviction of ‘Omaha Billy,’ 1903
Story by Tom F. Callaghan, Chief of Detectives, Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Dalton O’Sullivan, Detective and Author of Enemies of the Underworld, 1917 Bert Forney was proprietor of a saloon, 1028 West Broadway, Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was not a quarrelsome man, but was a man of more than ordinary nerve, and one who […]
Posted: July 6th, 2017 under Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1900-1919, Iowa, Robbery & Murder, Vintage Detective Stories
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The Chinatown Trunk Murder: Christian Missionary’s Love Triangle has Fatal Consequence, 1909
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Posted: June 16th, 2017 under Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1900-1919, Love and Jealousy, Love Triangle, Murder, New York, unsolved, Women
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Mug Shot Monday! Joseph MacAvoy, 1943
During the summer of 1943, sixteen-year-old Anna Milroy, lived and worked on a farm outside her hometown of Sutton, Nebraska, a small city of just 1,400 people. She was a junior in high school and the oldest of eight children. She worked during the week and on the weekend, she was free to do […]
Posted: December 5th, 2016 under Mug Shot Monday, Short Feature Story.
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