Murder at Green Springs
Murder at Green Springs

Author: J.K. Brandau

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 161448063X

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The cautionary true crime shocker of Virginia’s Elizabeth Hall, and one of the most sensational trials of an accused murderess since Lizzie Borden. On an April morning in 1914, Victor Hall was murdered in his store at Green Springs Depot. It was only hours after his competitor’s business had been torched. The Louisa County sheriff, state investigator, and railroad detectives suspected Hall's rival, one of a dozen men with viable motives. Then gossip spread that Victor’s wife, Elizabeth, had poisoned her first husband. Coupled with more sordid rumors, the unfounded accusations became irresistibly salacious headlines, whipping the state of Virginia into a frenzy for seven months. Friends and neighbors perjured themselves to become part of the front-page story. And as Hall’s own Pinkerton detective turned against her in the same mad rush to judgment, the widow found herself trapped in a nightmare that was just beginning. A century later, J.K. Brandau, husband of Elizabeth Hall’s great-granddaughter, finally unearths the timely and tragic story in which truth didn’t stand a chance against the most public, lurid, and sensational lies.

Murder at Green Springs
Murder at Green Springs

Author: J K Brandau

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 9781600372902

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Murder! Mystery! Outrage! Victor Hall, young railway depot master, married to the strikingly older widow of his former employer, was shot dead in his store just hours after someone torched his competitor's business. The sheriff, state investigator, and railroad detectives suspected Hall's business rival until strange circumstances, rumors of poisoning her first husband and of a freakish love interest fixed suspicion on the innocent widow. Even her own Pinkerton detective turned against her! Arsons, frenzy, and conspiracies forced Mrs. Hall's arrest for murder. Civil unrest forced her exile until trial. Cabal, perjury and media sensation secured conviction and sent the widow to prison leaving daughters to fend for themselves. Reason returned, but convoluted politics barred her release. Embarrassment repressed the statewide sensation that newspapers predicted to become ." . . one of the most famous criminal cases in Virginia."

Murder at Green Springs The True Story of the Hall Case, Firestorm of Prejudices
Murder at Green Springs The True Story of the Hall Case, Firestorm of Prejudices

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Published: 2007

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Murder! Mystery! Outrage! Victor Hall, young railway depot master, married to the strikingly older widow of his former employer, was shot dead in his store just hours after someone torched his competitor's business. The sheriff, state investigator, and railroad detectives suspected Hall's business rival until strange circumstances, rumors of poisoning her first husband and of a freakish love interest fixed suspicion on the innocent widow. Even her own Pinkerton detective turned against her! Arsons, frenzy, and conspiracies forced Mrs. Hall's arrest for murder. Civil unrest forced her exile until trial. Cabal, perjury and media sensation secured conviction and sent the widow to prison leaving daughters to fend for themselves. Reason returned, but convoluted politics barred her release. Embarrassment repressed the statewide sensation that newspapers predicted to become ." . . one of the most famous criminal cases in Virginia."

Mysteries and Legends of Virginia
Mysteries and Legends of Virginia

Author: Emilee Hines

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010-08-17

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0762766573

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Part of our new and growing Mysteries and Legends series, Mysteries and Legends of Virginia explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Virginia’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Virginia history.

Virginia Myths and Legends
Virginia Myths and Legends

Author: Emilee Hines

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-11-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1493015931

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Part of our new and growing Mysteries and Legends series, Mysteries and Legends of Virginia explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Virginia’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Virginia history.

Lions of the Dan
Lions of the Dan

Author: J.K. Brandau

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1642793094

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“Tells the brigade’s long history for the first time . . . captures the daily grind of soldiers striving and struggling in the ranks . . . A triumph” (Peter S. Carmichael, Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College). This unique history chronicles those men of Pickett’s Charge over the full course of the Civil War. While time-honored celebrations of Armistead and Pickett focus narrowly on moments at Gettysburg, primary sources declare the untold story of the best of men in the worst of times, and refutes Lost Cause myths surrounding Armistead and Pickett. For the first time, Lions of the Dan widens the aperture to introduce real heroes and amazing deeds that have been suppressed until now. The author presents the experiences of real soldiers in their own words and highlights the much-ignored history of Southside Virginia, presenting the Civil War start to finish from a unique regional perspective. Readers will find their pedestrian notions of the founding of the South’s peculiar institution challenged as they read an objective account of Virginia’s secession and celebrate the courage and devotion of soldiers on both sides.

Murder at Maple Springs
Murder at Maple Springs

Author: Mark Hinrich

Publisher:

Published: 2016-09-26

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780692738191

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In reality, Maple Springs is a "beauty spot on Lake Chautauqua" south of Buffalo and just north of the Pennsylvania border. It's a restful, inviting, summer community bent on offering successful R & R. In fiction, Maple Springs also exists in the same geographical location where summers lakeside are great, people terrific, but author Bob Terreberry has created a community of people who vacation, play and solve mysteries together. In this debut mystery novel, the first of a series, protagonist Colin O'Brien and his wife Vonny have just moved into their retirement home in The Springs when a body is found dead in a neighbor's lakeside cottage. Things become complicated when the victim's three step-daughters, from Savannah, GA come north to "protect their interests" when a change in a will is brought to light. Sibling rivalries, jealousy, deceit, death and burglary collide to form a complicated exchange of truths, half-truths and lies. Colin becomes the "deputy in residence" in The Springs and partners with County Sheriff Joe Green and his crime scene team, along with getting help from other community members, to find the murderer and the stolen items and to return Maple Springs to its safe and laid-back fictional reality.