I will also be there, with copies of Let Teachers Teach, 5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado, Spirit of Hope, No Child Left Alive, Scars from the Tornado, and my other books available for purchase and signing.
Other authors scheduled to be there are Cheryle Finley, Helen Hunter, and Michele Newton Hansford.
The advertising for Larry Wood's Murder and Mayhem in Missouri describes it this way:
Desperadoes like Frank and Jesse James earned Missouri the nickname of the “Outlaw State” after the Civil War, and that reputation followed the region into the Prohibition era through the feverish criminal activity of Bonnie and Clyde, the Barkers and Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd. Duck into the Slicker War of the 1840s, a vigilante movement that devolved into a lingering feud in which the two sides sometimes meted out whippings, called slickings, on each other. Or witness the Kansas City Massacre of 1933, a shootout between law enforcement officers and criminal gang members who were trying to free Frank Nash, a notorious gang leader being escorted to federal prison. Follow Larry Wood through the most shameful and savage portion of the Show-Me State’s history.
Wood’s other books include Wicked Joplin, Desperadoes of the Ozarks and Wicked Springfield, Missouri: The Seamy Side of the Queen City.
From the description on his Amazon page:
Wood has been writing profesionally for over 35 years. During that time, he has written everything from children’s fiction to how-to articles, but in recent years he has specialized increasingly in historical nonfiction. He especially enjoys writing about episodes of the Civil War and the Old West that occurred in his home territory of the Ozarks.
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