Mysterious Chicago
History at Its Coolest
Skyhorse · Print & ebook · October 25, 2016
From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City’s quirks and oddities, comes a compelling heavily researched anthology of the stories behind its most fascinating unsolved mysteries.
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- Who it’s for
- Chicago's open questions make a lively tour along the border between history and legend.
- Themes
- Chicago history, Unsolved mysteries, Fact versus fiction
- Genres
- Historical True Crime, Midwest History, Haunted Places & Mysteries
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From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City’s quirks and oddities, comes a compelling heavily researched anthology of the stories behind its most fascinating unsolved mysteries. To create this unique volume, Selzer has collected forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to modern day. He has poured through all newspaper, magazine, and book references to them, and consulted expert historians.
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Topics covered include who really started the great Chicago fire, who was the first automobile murderer,” and even if there was actually a vampire slaying at Rose Hill cemetery. The result is both a colorful read to get lost in, a window to a world of curiosity and wonder, as well as a volume that separates fact from fictiontrue crime from urban legend. Complementing the gripping stories Selzer presents are original images of the crime and its suspects as developed by its original investigators. Readers will marvel at how each character and crime were presented, and happily journey with Selzer as he presents all facts and theories presented at the time of the crime” and uses modern hindsight to assemble the pieces.
Chicago Unresolved
Chicago's open questions make a lively tour along the border between history and legend.
Come here for
- Forty Chicago mysteries, from the Great Fire to an alleged cemetery vampire slaying
- The curious line between true crime and urban legend
Expect
- Period accounts considered with modern hindsight
- Original images of crimes and suspects
Where it sits
| Midwest History | 62% |
|---|---|
| Historical True Crime | 50% |
| Haunted Places & Mysteries | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Curiosities & Wonders
- Museums & Cultural Tours
- Travel Resources
- Midwest: East North Central
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- Haunted Places & Mysteries
- Authors
- Adam Selzer
- Publisher
- Skyhorse
- Published
- October 25, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Chicago history · Unsolved mysteries · Fact versus fiction
- Reading lane
- Curiosities & Wonders