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Wicked Charleston: The Dark Side of the Holy City
The tabloid version of Charleston history: drinking, prostitution,
wayward ministers and general debauchery. From the sexual escapades of
King Charles II and Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, to a free love colony in
1724! Pirates, slave rebellions and dueling, murder and drunken
ministers, this is the true history of the holy city.
Now in a 3rd printing with a new cover!
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Wicked Charleston, Vol. II: Prostitutes, Politics & Prohibition
Volume II continues the revelry by focusing the spotlight on the "ladies
of Eden " who plied their trade to the rich, the elite and the poor alike.
During the 19th century, the most integrated places in Charleston were
the brothels. Fashionable Market Street was once a place where a sailor
could get a beer, a tattoo and a social disease. During Prohibition more
than 20,000 South Carolinians made a living as a bootlegger .
Published by The History Press in June 2006.
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South Carolina Killers: Crimes of Passion
South Carolina Killers: Crimes of Passion, collects ten of the most
intriguing, horrifying and tragic Palmetto state murder stories over the
span of 100 years.
- 1903: the Lt. Governor of walked up to a local newspaper editor and
in full view of several witnesses, shot the editor in the stomach
- 1944: George Stinney was marched to the electric chair - at age 14.
- 1994: a young mother made national news when she claimed her
two sons had been kidnapped by a black man, even though she had
driven them into their watery grave herself.
- 2004: police apprehend a man for the rape & murder of a local
female schoolteacher and were shocked to discover the suspect was
wearing the victim's clothes.
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Palmetto Predators: Monsters Among Us
A collection of South Carolina's most notorious monsters. Including:
- The killer who turned a small beach community into
a terrorized town.
- The “Gaffney Strangler" contacted police with the
cryptic message: “Stop me or I will kill again.”
- The friendly schoolteacher / rapist who for 30 years
waged a “one man epidemic” in some of Charleston’s
most exclusive private schools.
- And of course, the “meanest man in America”, the
horrifying and tragic life of South Carolina’s most
successful serial killer, Pee Wee Gaskins.
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