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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 5th 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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