Ol' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond
A biography of the long-time senator and governor.
Wanton Woman: Sue Logue, Strom Thurmond, and the Bloody Logue-Timmerman Feud
This is the story of Sue Logue, one of the late Senator Strom Thurmond's early lovers, and the first woman to be executed in South Carolina's electric chair. The case received wide coverage in the Southern press in the 1940s, owing, perhaps, to its salacious aspect.
Vengeance at Meeting Street: The Shocking Story of Sue Logue, the First Woman to Die in South Carolina's Electric Chair, her Lover Senator Strom Thurmond and the Bloody Logue-Timmerman Feud
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 Murder in the Carolinas
More true stories of actual murders in the Carolinas.
Murder in the Carolinas
From the 1820s to the 1980s, these are true stories of actual murders in the Carolinas.
Storied & Scandalous Charleston: A History of Piracy and Prohibition, Rebellion and Revolution
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.
Cursed in the Carolinas: Stories of the Damned
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.
Eerie South Carolina: True Chilling Stories from the Palmetto Past
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.