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Unprepared to Die: America's Greatest Murder Ballads and the True Crime Stories That Inspired Them by Paul Slade

Unprepared to Die: America's Greatest Murder Ballads and the True Crime Stories That Inspired Them

Paul Slade

336 pages first pub 2015 (view editions)

nonfiction history music true crime dark slow-paced
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Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest 'orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in e...

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