Bloodstained Louisiana
Subtitle: Twelve Murder Cases, 1896-1934
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781476672168
Subjects: Murder, louisiana
Description: "Historian Alan G. Gauthreaux chronicles 12 homicide cases from late 1800s and early 1900s Louisiana--where "unwritten law" justified jilted women who killed their paramours, and police took measures to protect defendants from lynch mobs"--