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    612-822-4611

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The Petticoat Butcher - The Pinkertons' Hunt for Jimmy Ward: One Man's Journey Through 19th Century America

The Petticoat Butcher - The Pinkertons' Hunt for Jimmy Ward: One Man's Journey Through 19th Century America

Hamele, Scott
Koviak, Ian

Hardcover

General FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $27.99

ISBN13: 9798349644825
Publisher: Schuyler & Sons Publishing
Published: Oct 24 2025
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A nameless killer moves along the rail lines of post-Civil War America-depots, stockyards, boardinghouses-always one town ahead of the law. Newspapers call him the Petticoat Butcher. Pinkerton agents Edward Hart and Teddy Meachman call him by another name: Jimmy Ward.

From Indiana battlefields to the boom towns of the 1880s and '90s, the chase tightens. Farmer-veteran Peter Cornelius, who once knew Ward in uniform, becomes the case's quiet center-answering hard questions while the agents sort rumor from truth and bodies from headlines. A stint in the Kansas State Penitentiary only hardens Ward and sharpens his patience; iron doors teach him how to wait, and waiting becomes a weapon.

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