Overview

Who was the enigmatic Dora Doxey? And what was her strange and lifelong connection with the doctor? Was she, as the authorities sought to prove, simply calculating and cold-blooded, or was she herself more of a victim than a criminal? She was born Dora Elizabeth Fuller on March 17, 1880, in Mercer County, Illinois, took on several names and husbands, and was suspected of killing one of them. You will watch this story unfold in much the same way as did newspaper readers in the early years of the last century, when telegraphs were common but telephones were rare, and motorcars were just making their way onto the nation's dusty roads and rutted highways. As this story grew, other papers throughout the country happily amplified the Dora Doxey tale, which ranged from sordid to titillating to sad to romantic -- and was always mysterious. In the Read All About It! series of fully illustrated true-crime books, you get the actual text -- edited for the sake of brevity and for your understanding of these convoluted weeks and months when Dora Doxey was the talk of the nation. The newspapers which covered this story built the ongoing saga as a confrontation between two women, Dora Doxey, the suspected murderer, and Kate Erder, whose struggle for justice for her dead brother would change her life. In the background was always the doctor, with his hypodermic needle.

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A tour de force, including the skillfully woven newspaper accounts, interpolated comments and choice graphic elements. What a tale! I was fascinated. -- Martin McReynolds An account of a sensational murder trial in 1909 told through the newspapers of the time. An interesting read and recommended for history and crime buffs. -- M.C. Mattiello This is a very interesting story, especially if you like vintage true crime. -- B. McKee

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George Garrigues has been a journalist since his brother, Charles Samuel Garrigues, put together a hand-printed ""newspaper,"" to send to their absent father in a distant city. Later, the said absent father wangled a job for George as a copyboy on the San Francisco Examiner, at the age of 15, and they worked together in the same newsroom, the father on the copy desk, and the son on the copy bench, which is where all the copyboys sat. George wrote a book about his father, ""He Usually Lived With a Female,"" which is now out of print, but you can still buy it very cheaply on Amazon.com. George was a reporter on the Inglewood Daily News, Ontario (California) Daily Report, and Los Angeles Times. He later was a journalism professor at several universities. He worked in public relations for the State of California (San Francisco and Sacramento) and the International Labor Office (Geneva, Switzerland). He is currently authoring the Read All About It! Series of ebooks telling the stories of actual people of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, using real newspaper articles from that era.

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