For June\, the Blue Grass True Crime Book Club will be reading Stuart Sander's new book Murder on the Ohio Belle.&nb sp\;
\nIn March 1856\, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Miss issippi River. Nothing out of the ordinary. In those days\, people fished corpses from the river with alarming frequency. But this body\, with its a rms and legs tied to a chair\, struck an especially eerie chord. The body belonged to a man who had been a passenger on the luxurious steamboat know n as the \;Ohio Belle\, \;and he was the son of a southern planter . Who had bound and pitched this wealthy man into the river? Why? As repor ts of the killing spread\, one newspaper shuddered\, "The details are trul y awful and well calculated to cause a thrill of horror."
\nDrawing on eyewitness accounts\, \;Murder on the Ohio Belle \;uncovers the mysterious circumstances behind the bloodshed. A northern vessel captured by secessionists\, sailing the border between slave and free states at th e edge of the frontier\, the \;Ohio Belle \;navigated the confluen ce of nineteenth-century America's greatest tensions. Stuart W. Sanders di ves into the history of this remarkable steamer - a story of double murder s\, secret identities\, and hasty getaways - and reveals the bloody roots of antebellum honor culture\, classism\, and vigilante justice. (Descripti on from book.)
\nJoin us to discuss this thrilling book about murder in Old Kentucky!
\nAuthor Stuart W. Sanders will be joining us for this special meeting!
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