
The Pirate
Bloodlands collection
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Narrated by:
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Steven Weber
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By:
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Harold Schechter
In 1860, a sloop drifted into New York Harbor. Not a soul on board - just blood from cabin to deck. Looted coins led to Bowery thug Albert Hicks, the ax slayer who turned his shipmates into chum.
His crimes were absolutely fiendish. His execution was pure ballyhoo. It drew nearly ten thousand bloodthirsty sightseers to the city - including the enterprising showman P. T. Barnum. Refreshments were served as the most notorious and unrepentant mass murderer of the era made history as one of America’s first celebrity killers.
The Pirate is part of Bloodlands, a chilling collection of short addictive historical narratives from bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter. Spanning a century in our nation’s murderous past, Schechter resurrects nearly forgotten tales of madmen and thrill-killers that dominated the most sensational headlines of their day.
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Good
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Great short story to be listened on a comute
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it was a great listen.
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Crime stories, whether in movies, TV or books always reflect the morality and mortality of humans – as cautionary tales to warn us…me especially. The bigger the human flaws or outsized characters; the villain(s) or defenseless victim(s), the press (broadsheet & tabloid), psychiatrists, police, and/or lawyers the more I gawk...
Note: all the ebooks were tricked out with Kindle in motion special effects. Bumped up the ante to the sensationalism...can’t tell if that’s a shot at the press or not…
***The Pirate – 1860’s murder by Albert Hicks who has been swallowed up by the passage of time, tho was a media circus at the time. Noteworthy was an odd tie-in with PT Barnum (which really isn’t that odd today) & the fact Hicks was the last American hung for piracy.
The last pirate
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CSI NY - A century ago
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Not too bad but slower than I thought it would be.
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Easy listening good story
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short and sweet
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dark history
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