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Mayhem in the Florida Panhandle
This is a series of short essays about true events that occurred in Northwest Florida in the not so distant past. Life was tough, justice was swift, and sometimes the culprits, both known and unknown got away their crimes. These were interesting times indeed.
98 pages, Paperback
Published September 12, 2022
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December 28, 2025
This book kind of felt like your friend who has a weirdly specific interest info dumping to you about it at a diner (from memory). I had a good time with it.
Although, just to provide some constructive criticism. I think if the author wanted to take this from friend info dumping to proper researched book status I would want two things:
1) Pick a theme. Some of the cases were solved; some weren’t. They were from all over the early 1900s. There wasn’t really anything connecting the crimes discussed to each other that I could find. It kind of just felt like a random selection of the ones that interested him. Which is fine for my friend info dumping at a diner but not fine for a book I’m asking people to pay for.
2) Flesh it out a bit more. Every case was over and done in a couple pages. I understand that for some of these cases little is known, but that’s where a theme and through line may have helped provide more narrative to flesh things out or perhaps some more historical background and research was necessary to provide context to the crimes themselves. Just general fluff it up a bit.
Anyway, I was still interested, but I don’t know if a lay person outside of the geographic area covered in this book would be in its current state. (I opened the book, and my mom immediately jumped to attention to ask me if it talked about Allentown, and I informed her that yes indeed it was the first case listed. So there’s definitely a market.)
Although, just to provide some constructive criticism. I think if the author wanted to take this from friend info dumping to proper researched book status I would want two things:
1) Pick a theme. Some of the cases were solved; some weren’t. They were from all over the early 1900s. There wasn’t really anything connecting the crimes discussed to each other that I could find. It kind of just felt like a random selection of the ones that interested him. Which is fine for my friend info dumping at a diner but not fine for a book I’m asking people to pay for.
2) Flesh it out a bit more. Every case was over and done in a couple pages. I understand that for some of these cases little is known, but that’s where a theme and through line may have helped provide more narrative to flesh things out or perhaps some more historical background and research was necessary to provide context to the crimes themselves. Just general fluff it up a bit.
Anyway, I was still interested, but I don’t know if a lay person outside of the geographic area covered in this book would be in its current state. (I opened the book, and my mom immediately jumped to attention to ask me if it talked about Allentown, and I informed her that yes indeed it was the first case listed. So there’s definitely a market.)
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