True Crime from Appalachian Book Company

Early Christmas morning 1945, just outside Fayetteville, WVa, a fire destroyed the home of George and Jennie Sodder–taking five of their children. Strange phone calls, death threats, and a mysterious man watching the house were just a few of the puzzling events that preceded the fire. No remains of the children were found–yet the official report said all five children perished… Read more about this item

True account of a prominent woman of Logan during the Depression, who is brutally murdered with a broken neck, throat slashed, and point blank gunshots to the head. Mamie was a member of the tight lipped aristocracy who used a special room in downtown Logan for their private club for gambling, illegal drinking, wife-swapping and the like. A local handyman was… Read more about this item

A novel based on a murder in Clay County, West Virginia. Sarah Ann Legg was accused of murdering her husband, Jay, in 1904 in the tiny community of Ira which is located a few miles up the Elk River from the town of Clay. Sarah was the first female resident of the newly constructed jail and was charged with first degree… Read more about this item

November 3rd, 1897: It is well before dawn in a prosperous little farming community in Jackson County, West Virginia, and the livestock has begun to stir as young Jimmy Greene puts on his jacket and heads out into the dark. His mother Chloe tidies up her bedroom while his half-sisters, Alice and Tillie, add more wood to the kitchen stove… Read more about this item

True account of a prominent woman of Logan during the Depression, who is brutally murdered with a broken neck, throat slashed, and point blank gunshots to the head. Mamie was a member of the tight lipped aristocracy who used a special room in downtown Logan for their private club for gambling, illegal drinking, wife-swapping and the like. A local handyman… Read more about this item

Murder On Staunton Road: The Violent Death Of Charleston Daily Mail Owner Juliet Staunton Clark is the real-life crime drama of the 1953 violent death of Juliet Staunton Clark, owner of the Charleston, West Virginia Daily Mail, and the strange investigation that followed the grisly homicide. The case was never solved and many details of the most famous and historically… Read more about this item

The 1979 pot plane crash—as it's come to be known in Charleston, West Virginia — was one of those "you had to be there" moments. Walter Cronkite opened the nightly news with, "You may not call this pot luck." Locals still refer to the crash to this day. Author Jerome Lill organized the botched smuggling attempt, bought the DC6 cargo plane,… Read more about this item