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ABC-CLIO Fatal Fortune: The Death of Chicago's Millionaire Orphan

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In December 1924, a 21-year-old millionaire orphan, William Billy McClintock, died of an unusually virulent form of typhoid. He was mourned by his financé, Isabelle Pope, who sought unsuccessfully to rally her love by marrying him on his deathbed. Shortly after Billy's funeral, questions arose as to the cause of death, with insinuations of foul play. After reaching his majority and inheriting his estate in April, McClintock had signed a will drafted by one of his guardians, lawyer William D. Shepherd―a will which left everything to Shepherd, but only if Billy died before his planned February 1925 wedding to Ms. Pope. Ultimately, Shepherd and his wife Julie were accused of killing not only Billy McClintock, but Billy's mother and a doctor friend of the family. This case caused a major sensation in Jazz Age Chicago, a society fascinated with murder and mayhem. When the body of Billy's mother was exhumed after sixteen years, it was found to contain enough mercury to have killed two people. The Shepherds were the only likely sources. Three physicians came forward to say that Shepherd had approached them about obtaining typhoid germs. Yet, Shepherd would beat the charges of Billy's murder; in fact, no one would ever be charged in the death of Billy's mother. Was there a murder―or two? Who stood to gain the most from these deaths? McConnell recreates a slice of life among Chicago's elite and the colorful characters who may or may not have sought their own piece of the fatal fortune―so-called because its inheritors almost always died within two years of receiving it. Review "In Fatal Fortune, Virginia McConnell so brilliantly takes the reader back to Chicago in the 1920's that she seems to make time travel possible. And once you get there, she tells a wonderful story of murder and mystery, made even more compelling by the fact that it's true."-David Rosenfelt author of Bury the Lead "McConnell has established herself as the premiere archeologist of long-forgotten American true crime tales that once read makes readers wonder why no one else has written the story before. With a historian's eye for accuracy and atmospheric detial and a mystery writer's flair for great drama, she holds us spellbound. Fatal Fortune is her best yet."-Gregg Olsen author of Starvation Heights About the Author Virginia A. McConnell, a native of Syracuse, New York, has degrees from The College of the St. Rose, Purdue University, and Golden State University Law School. She currently teaches English, Literature, and Speech at Walla Walla Community College's Clarkston Center in Clarkston, Washington. Her other books include Arsenic Under the Elms: Murder in Victorian New Haven (Praeger, 1999) and Sympathy for the Devil: The Emmanuel Baptist Murders of Old San Francisco (Praeger, 2001).

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Brand: ABC-CLIO
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0275984737
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Military History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 September 2005
Listed Since: 15 January 2007

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