Wisconsin Murders

1968 collection of true crime accounts written by August Derleth

Wisconsin Murders

Dust-jacket by Ronald Clyne for Wisconsin Murders

Author| August Derleth
Cover artist| Ronald Clyne
Language| English
Genre| true crime
Publisher| Mycroft & Moran

Publication date

| 1968
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (Hardback)
Pages| xi, 222 pp

Wisconsin Murders is a collection of true crime accounts written by author August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 1,958 copies. The stories detail sixteen cases of sudden death in Wisconsin for 1842 to 1926. Three of the accounts had appeared previously in American Weekly and Saint Mystery Magazine.

## Contents

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Wisconsin Murders contains the following accounts:

1. "Foreword"
2. "Caffee Was A Gallowsbird"
3. "An Affair in Council"
4. "A Jury of His Peers"
5. "A Way With the Ladies"
6. "Coincidence and Dr. Garner"
7. "The Tribulations of Sarah Ingersoll"
8. "A Rival to Xantippe"
9. "A Slight Case of Perjury"
10. "'Hell Hath No Fury...'"
11. "A Village Borgia"
12. "La Follette for the Prosecution"
13. "The Dog in the Night-Time"
14. "Dear Grace"
15. "Hart Gets His Man"
16. "Christmas Package"
17. "The Wolf at the Church Social"

## References

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* Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 90\. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
* Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 845.
* Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 182\. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
* Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 153\. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.

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Solar Pons|

* "In Re: Sherlock Holmes" – The Adventures of Solar Pons
* The Memoirs of Solar Pons
* Three Problems for Solar Pons
* The Return of Solar Pons
* The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
* Mr. Fairlie's Final Journey
* The Casebook of Solar Pons
* A Praed Street Dossier
* The Chronicles of Solar Pons
* The Solar Pons Omnibus
* The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition
* The Final Adventures of Solar Pons

Horror|

* Someone in the Dark
* Something Near
* Not Long for this World
* The Survivor and Others
* The Mask of Cthulhu
* Lonesome Places
* The Trail of Cthulhu
* Mr. George and Other Odd Persons
* Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People
* The Watchers Out of Time and Others (based on fragments by H. P. Lovecraft)
* Dwellers in Darkness
* In Lovecraft's Shadow
* The Lurker at the Threshold (based on fragments by H. P. Lovecraft)

Science fiction|

* Harrigan's File

Short fiction|

* "The Lonesome Place"
* "The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians"

Biography|

* Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft

History|

* The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years
* Wisconsin Murders

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* Sleep No More
* Who Knocks?
* The Night Side
* The Sleeping and the Dead
* Strange Ports of Call
* The Other Side of the Moon
* Beyond Time and Space
* Far Boundaries
* The Outer Reaches
* Beachheads in Space
* Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company
* Worlds of Tomorrow
* Portals of Tomorrow
* Time to Come
* Dark Mind, Dark Heart
* New Worlds for Old
* The Sleeping and the Dead
* The Time of Infinity
* The Unquiet Grave
* When Evil Wakes
* From Other Worlds
* Over the Edge
* Travellers by Night
* Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
* Dark Things
* New Horizons

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