Vengeance at Meeting Street reexamines this precedent setting true crime South Carolina multiple murder case involving the Logues and the Timmermans. A rewrite and update of Wanton Woman, this book is largely written from Sue Logues' point of view. Vengeance at Meeting Street has an expanded interior layout that features stronger coverage of the trials plus many additional rare photographs, some of which are shown on the bold new jacket cover design.

More true stories of actual murders in the Carolinas.

From the 1820s to the 1980s, these are true stories of actual murders in the Carolinas.

In Storied & Scandalous Charleston, storyteller Leigh Jones Handal weaves tales of piracy, rebellion, ancient codes of honor, and first-hand accounts of the madness that ensued as the city fell first to the British in 1780 and then to the Union in 1865. Meet some of the foremost female criminals of the day-lady pirate Anne Bonny and highwaywoman Livinia Fisher. And learn how centuries of war, natural disasters, bankruptcy, and chaos shaped modern Charleston and the Carolina Low Country.

In Cursed in the Carolinas, Patty A. Wilson recounts tales of genuine maledictions intended to invoke evil and unease across both North and South Carolina. The pages will bring to life these stories, letting you decide whether the resulting tragedies were simply bad luck, coincidences…or something far more sinister.

Master storyteller Sherman Carmichael is back with more mysterious tales from South Carolina; from Plantersville to Loris and from Beaufort to Clinton. Many of these stories have been told and retold throughout generations, like the red-eyed specter that roams the stairwells of Wilson Hall at Converse College or the haunted grave site of Agnes of Glasgow in Camden. In 1987, a construction company unearthed the bodies of fourteen Union soldiers from the Civil War; twelve of the bodies were found without their heads.

Introduction: Lost in legend -- The time: 1819 -- The victims: two corpses and a cow -- The gang: the forgotten members -- The trial: colonial justice is not criminal justice -- The escape: a last bid for freedom -- The sentencing: colonial justice equals colonial corruption -- The execution: in the words of those who witnessed it -- The method: death by hanging : colonial justice versus criminal justice -- The allegations: colonial justice versus criminal justice -- Power and greed: politics at its best -- Land swindling: the keys may be key -- Motive: the sins of the father -- Conclusion:

Based on the 2d. ed. of The bad wife's looking glass, or, God's revenge against cruelty to husbands by M. L. Weems, printed in 1823.