The Petticoat Butcher - The Pinkertons' Hunt for Jimmy Ward
One Man's Journey Through 19th Century America
A nameless killer moves along the rail lines of post-Civil War America-depots, stockyards, boardinghouses-always one town ahead of the law. Newspapers call him the Petticoat Butcher. Pinkerton agents Edward Hart and Teddy Meachman call him by another name: Jimmy Ward.
From Indiana battlefields to the boom towns of the 1880s and '90s, the chase tightens. Farmer-veteran Peter Cornelius, who once knew Ward in uniform, becomes the case's quiet center-answering hard questions while the agents sort rumor from truth and bodies from headlines. A stint in the Kansas State Penitentiary only hardens Ward and sharpens his patience; iron doors teach him how to wait, and waiting becomes a weapon.
Then comes Elizabeth. In a brief, startling calm, Ward falls in love with a woman who believes a man can lay down his old life like a worn coat. For a moment, the tracks go quiet. But old habits and older wounds do not die easily, and the agents know it.
Told in taut, unflinching prose, The Petticoat Butcher is a relentless historical thriller across Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas-a portrait of a nation rebuilding, a man unraveling, and the investigators who refuse to let the dead go unanswered. For readers of gritty historical crime and true-crime-adjacent fiction, this is the hunt you won't put down.
9798349644825
Book, Hardcover
The Petticoat Butcher - The Pinkertons' Hunt for Jimmy Ward: One Man's Journey Through 19th Century America
- Author: Scott Hamele
- Cover Design by: Ian Koviak
312
English
9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inches, 1.29 pounds
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