Killer Colt Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend

Harold Schechter

eBook - 2010

With such acclaimed works as The Devil's Gentleman, Harold Schechter has earned renown as the dean of true-crime historians. Now, in this gripping account of driving ambition, doomed love, and brutal murder in an iconic American family, Schechter again casts his gaze into the sinister shadows of gaslit nineteenth-century New York City.In September 1841, a grisly discovery is made aboard a merchant ship docked in lower Manhattan: Deep in the cargo hold, bound with rope and covered with savage head wounds, lies a man's naked corpse. While a murderer has taken pains to conceal his victim's identity, it takes little time to determine that the dead man is Samuel Adams, proprietor of a local printing firm. And in less time still, w...itnesses and a bloody trail of clues lead investigators to the doorstep of the enigmatic John Colt.The scion of a prosperous Connecticut family, Colt has defied his parents' efforts to mold him into a gentleman--preferring to flout...

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Random House Publishing Group
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English
Main Author
Harold Schechter
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ISBN9780345522740
Release Date9/28/2010