Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery--known in the press as the -Wild Man- and the -Goat...
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In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery--known in the press as the -Wild Man- and the -Goat Woman---enlisted an African American man named George Pearls to rob their reclusive neigh
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ISBN:
9781469635033 (1469635038)
Edition language: English
True crime reading is not really my thing and yet this book premise and cover caught my attention as it was set in 1932 Natchez, Mississippi and told the true story of Jennie Surget Merrill, a women who once belonged to a society where While Mansions, wealth, Souther aristocracy and plantations were...
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