Little Chicago: Murder in Mount Airy, North Carolina and the Surrounding Area

by Thomas D. Perry

166 pages, Paperback

Published April 17, 2025

About the author

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry was born in Mount Airy, North Carolina, and grew up just over the border in Ararat, Patrick County, Virginia, where Civil War General J. E. B. Stuart, Reverend Bob Childress "The Man Who Moved A Mountain," and Orleana Hawks Puckett, the famous mid-wife on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Perry has written or published over thirty books on regional history focusing on the Civil War. His latest book Beyond Mayberry: A Memoirs of Andy Griffith and Mount Airy North Carolina.