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The Petticoat Butcher - The Pinkertons' Hunt for Jimmy Ward
By Scott Hamele
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Description
From Indiana battlefields to the boom towns of the 1880s and '90s, the chase tightens. Farmer-veteran Peter Cornelius, who once knew Ward in uniform, becomes the case's quiet center-answering hard questions while the agents sort rumor from truth and bodies from headlines. A stint in the Kansas State Penitentiary only hardens Ward and sharpens his patience; iron doors teach him how to wait, and waiting becomes a weapon.
Then comes Elizabeth. In a brief, startling calm, Ward falls in love with a woman who believes a man can lay down his old life like a worn coat. For a moment, the tracks go quiet. But old habits and older wounds do not die easily, and the agents know it.
Told in taut, unflinching prose, The Petticoat Butcher is a relentless historical thriller across Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas-a portrait of a nation rebuilding, a man unraveling, and the investigators who refuse to let the dead go unanswered. For readers of gritty historical crime and true-crime-adjacent fiction, this is the hunt you won't put down.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Number of Pages:
- 338
- Release Date:
- 2025-09-19
- Publication Date:
- 2025-09-19
- Publisher:
- Scott Hamele
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN13:
- 9798349566967
- Weight:
- 491 g
- Height:
- 152 cm
- Width:
- 229 cm
- Thickness:
- 18 cm
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