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  • The Shocking Story of Helmuth Schmidt

    Michigan's Original Lonely Hearts Killer

    by Tobin T. Buhk ...
    The author of True Crime: Michigan "tells the tale of an alleged World War I German spy and love-ad bandit from Royal Oak who killed to cover up his work" ( C&G News).In the fall of 1916, New York housemaid Augusta Steinbach fell in love with a man she met through a matrimonial advertisement in her local newspaper. She traveled to Detroit to marry her correspondent, but in March 1917, she ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • True Crime in the Civil War

    Cases of Murder, Treason, Counterfeiting, Massacre, Plunder & Abuse

    by Tobin T Buhk ...
    "Reconstruct[s] Civil War cold cases and crimes through the people who lived to tell about them . . . a unique history."— MLive"Crime did not take a holiday during the Civil War, far from it. As Tobin Buhk shows in this fast-paced narrative, the war created new opportunities to gain profits from illegal activities, to settle old scores against personal enemies under the cover of fighting the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids

    The Scandalous 1916 Murder Plot

    by Tobin T. Buhk ...
    "Traces the footsteps of poisoner Arthur Waite from his marriage to Clara Peck . . . in 1915 to his death by electrocution at Sing Sing Prison in 1917" (MLive.com).With his boyish good looks, Arthur Warren Waite charmed into marriage the daughter of wealthy Grand Rapids business tycoon John E. Peck in 1916. He then wasted no time executing what he believed to be a flawless scheme to hijack his ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michigan's Strychnine Saint

    The Curious Case of Mrs. Mary McKnight

    by Tobin T. Buhk ...
    " A historically accurate picture of the characters involved in the complicated frontier-era poisoning investigation" (MLive.com).The spring of 1903 proved disastrous for the Murphy family. On April 22, the infant Ruth Murphy died in her crib. Within an hour, her mother, Gertrude, experienced a violent spasm before she, too, died. Ten days later, John Murphy followed his wife and child to the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wicked Women of Detroit

    by Tobin T Buhk ...
    Author Tobin T. Buhk recounts the thrilling tales of Detroit's most violent, clever and misunderstood female criminals."Queen of the Underworld" Sophie Lyons faced off with detective Teresa Lewis in court three times, and twice in the street, rendering both women battered and bloodied. Nellie Pope goaded her lover to axe her husband in what the press called "one of the most atrocious, cold-blooded ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Killer Women of Michigan

    by Tobin T. Buhk ...
    They used arsenic to obtain chemical divorces and strychnine to settle scores. They bludgeoned husbands to make way for lovers. They flattened love triangles with blunt objects. They murdered for money, for revenge, for pleasure./ Meet the heiress who just could not take "no" for an answer from her mechanic lover; meet the two nursing home workers whose deadly game ended after the murders of six ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Hangman

    A Biography of Amos Lunt, the Executioner of San Quentin

    by Tobin T. Buhk ...
    In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their deaths. A former police chief who became the hangman of San Quentin due to an unfortunate turn of events, Lunt stood on the gallows alongside bank robbers, desperadoes and assassins for five years.This book follows Lunt's trail from the Santa Cruz police ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • True Crime: Michigan

    by Tobin T. Buhk ...
    Series series True Crime
    Includes Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance, the Bath School Massacre, the Purple Gang of Detroit, and many more. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Murder & Mayhem in Grand Rapids

    by Tobin T. Buhk ...
    Series series Murder & Mayhem
    While the River City is known for its history of furniture making, it also has a sinister side. Jennie Flood was a widow with a get-rich scheme that involved a shotgun and an insurance application. Reverend Ferris went undercover in his war against the city's purveyors of vice. The police rounded up the usual suspects in an attempt to solve the infamous 1921 bank heist that led to the slaying of ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cold Case Michigan

    by Tobin T. Buhk ...
    Blanketed by forests, dotted by lakes, crisscrossed by rivers and surrounded by Great Lakes, Michigan is a good place to hide secrets, bury bodies and stash evidence. Dig deep enough and you will unearth something sinister. Is the suicide note of a prominent Detroit physician also a confession of murder? Were inmates unlawfully released from Jackson State Penitentiary to carry out a contract ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lonely Hearts Killers

    The Bloody Passions of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez

    by Tobin T. Buhk ...
    The shocking series of crimes committed by lovers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez dominated the front pages in 1949. Caught for the double homicide of a widow and her young daughter in Michigan, the first couple of crime became the focus of an intense debate over the death penalty and extradition. Their story climaxed in a sensational trial in New York City and concluded two years later inside ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Pardonable Matricide

    Robert Irving Latimer, from Michigan's "Most Dangerous Inmate" to Free Man

    by Tobin T. Buhk ...
    In January 1889, as London constables hunted for Jack the Ripper and theaters around the world presented theatrical renditions of the Jekyll and Hyde story, Jackson, Michigan, Police Captain Jack Boyle searched for the murderer of Mary Latimer. This book follows Captain Boyle to the bordellos of gaslight-era Detroit--populated by madams, pimps, prostitutes and gamblers. It describes the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD