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PublisherArcadia Publishing

ISBN-101467138800

ISBN-139781467138802

eBay Product ID (ePID)22038637942

Product Key Features

Book TitleWicked Asheville

Number of Pages144 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), General

Publication Year2018

IllustratorYes

GenreTrue Crime, Photography, History

AuthorNot Available

Book SeriesWicked Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight0.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2018-942443

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsIn Wicked Asheville," Milling explores stories no marketing campaign would dare use to promote Asheville. The book brims with details of murder and mayhem, corruption, arson, and disease... Milling uses her acute reporting skills to explore these chilling cases and uncovers details that make the reader pause with discomfort (and wonder why the author has chosen to recall such bizarre events from the past)." Asheville Citizen Times, "In "Wicked Asheville," Milling explores stories no marketing campaign would dare use to promote Asheville. The book brims with details of murder and mayhem, corruption, arson, and disease... Milling uses her acute reporting skills to explore these chilling cases and uncovers details that make the reader pause with discomfort (and wonder why the author has chosen to recall such bizarre events from the past)." Asheville Citizen Times

Dewey Decimal975.688

SynopsisAsheville is a wonderfully strange city, but it has a few shadows in its past. Teenager Helen Clevenger was brutally murdered at the luxurious Battery Park Hotel in 1936. William Dudley Pelley called himself "America's Hitler" and founded his Silver Legion in Asheville. He stirred up enough antiwar propaganda to go to prison. A desperado named Will Harris came into town on a cold night in November 1906 and left a trail of dead bodies and panic among Asheville citizens. Mayor Gallatin Roberts killed himself in the wake of collapsing banks. Asheville native Marla Hardee Milling delves into wicked stories of murder, sedition, corruption, arson and disease., Discover the wicked and sordid history of Asheville, North Carolina in this volume by author and Asheville native Marla Hardee Milling. Asheville is a wonderfully strange city, but it has a few shadows in its past. Teenager Helen Clevenger was brutally murdered at the luxurious Battery Park Hotel in 1936. William Dudley Pelley called himself America's Hitler and founded his Silver Legion in Asheville. He stirred up enough anti war propaganda to go to prison. A desperado named Will Harris came into town on a cold night in November 1906 and left a trail of dead bodies and panic among Asheville citizens. Mayor Gallatin Roberts killed himself in the wake of collapsing banks. Asheville native Marla Hardee Milling delves into wicked stories of murder, sedition, corruption, arson and disease., Discover the wicked and sordid history of Asheville, North Carolina in this volume by author and Asheville native Marla Hardee Milling. Asheville is a wonderfully strange city, but it has a few shadows in its past. Teenager Helen Clevenger was brutally murdered at the luxurious Battery Park Hotel in 1936. William Dudley Pelley called himself ""America's Hitler"" and founded his Silver Legion in Asheville. He stirred up enough anti war propaganda to go to prison. A desperado named Will Harris came into town on a cold night in November 1906 and left a trail of dead bodies and panic among Asheville citizens. Mayor Gallatin Roberts killed himself in the wake of collapsing banks. Asheville native Marla Hardee Milling delves into wicked stories of murder, sedition, corruption, arson and disease.

LC Classification NumberF264.A8M555 2018