{"product_id":"murder-mayhem-in-southwestern-illinois-9781467147910","title":"Murder \u0026 Mayhem in Southwestern Illinois","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John J. Dunphy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: History Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: History Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Murder - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSouthwestern Illinois experienced a plethora of violence during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Settlers and Native Americans clashed at the Wood River Settlement, while Abraham Lincoln dueled on a Mississippi River island. Racial strife led to the lynching of a Black schoolteacher in Belleville in 1903 and a deadly riot in East St. Louis fourteen years later. Benbow City was a latter-day Wild West town of saloons, gambling dens and brothels, and Pere Marquette State Park screened a cache of Nike missiles. From the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr.'s killer to the mystery surrounding Jean Lafitte's grave, John Dunphy examines the bloody ledger of southwestern Illinois.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46313135767703,"sku":"9781467147910","price":2141.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781467147910.webp?v=1767706156","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/murder-mayhem-in-southwestern-illinois-9781467147910","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}