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Dapper & Deadly: The True Story of Black Charlie Harris

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If you don't feel  comfortable ordering online, please fill out our fillable online order form, print it and mail or fax it back to us. Downstate Publications PO Box 320 New Berlin, IL 62670 Email us 217-488-7709 217-488-7709 (Our phone and fax number are the same)

• 268 Pages
• Softcover book
• Biography

           Price $18.95  Add to shopping cart

         

Dapper & Deadly: The True Story of Black Charlie Harris recounts the lifelong journey of the last of the big-name desperadoes from Southern Illinois.  Viewed by the FBI as a lethal figure in American crime, Harris eventually landed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.  His deadly falling out with the Shelton brothers and his involvement in sensational murders in his own neighborhood brought a reign of terror to Wayne County, Illinois.   

         

 

         

 

         

 

         

 

         

 

                                                 

 

                                       

 

                             

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Brothers Notorious: The Sheltons

• 320 pages
• Biography
• Softcover book
• Includes:  Black and white illustrations, endnotes, select bibliography and index

          Price:  $15.95  Add to shopping cart  

 

 

 Brothers Notorious: The Sheltons is an exciting and fast-moving account of the lives and times of Carl, Big Earl and Bernie Shelton, lengendary gangsters who were kingpins of racketeering in much of downstate Illinois from the 1920s through the late 1940s. 

  

  

  

 
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The Summer of '50

• 278 pages
• Fiction
• Softcover book

          Price $15.95  Add to Shopping Cart

The Summer of '50 is Pensoneau's first work of fiction.  It will keep readers in suspense as veteran reporter Jake Brosky unravels a string of murders in Southern Illinois.

 

 

 

OTHER BOOKS WRITTEN BY TAYLOR PENSONEAU

 

 Dan Walker: The Glory and The Tragedy

• 368 pages
• Softcover book
• Includes:  Black and white Illustrations and index
• Publisher:  Smith Collins

            (Out of Print )

 

 

 

Governor Richard Ogilvie:  In the Interest of the State

• 293 Pages
• Hardcover book
• Includes:  Black and white illustrations, select bibliography and index
• Publisher:  Southern Illinois University Press

To purchase, please visit your favorite bookseller.

 

Powerhouse:  Arrington from Illinois

• 393 pages
• Hardcover book
• Includes:  Black and white illustrations, select bibliography and index
• Publisher:  American Literary Press

     
          Price:  $24.95

          To purchase, please visit your favorite bookseller.