Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids, Tobin T. Buhk
Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids, Tobin T. Buhk
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Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids
The Scandalous 1916 Murder Plot

Author: Tobin T. Buhk

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Unabridged: 5 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/22/2022

Synopsis


With his boyish good looks, Arthur Warren Waite charmed into marriage the daughter of wealthy Grand Rapids business tycoon John E. Peck in 1916. He then wasted no time executing what he believed to be a flawless scheme to hijack his wife's inheritance. The plot went awry when a mysterious telegram set off a sequence of events that ultimately exposed his immoral ambition to poison all other Peck heirs. Follow Waite's fingerprints of indiscretion around Grand Rapids and New York City as author Tobin T. Buhk details this audacious plan of staggering complexity.

About Tobin T. Buhk

A teacher by day and a crime writer by night, Tobin T. Buhk began his unique moonlighting when he did a brief stint as a morgue volunteer, which led to his first two books. A love of history and a fascination with crime led to True Crime Michigan, a history of the Great Lake State through its most inglorious moments, and True Crime in the Civil War.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cathy on November 25, 2015

I liked it for the local aspect but it was not all that well written.......more

Goodreads review by Linda on September 14, 2020

I've been exploring GR history and landmarks and stumbled on this 1916 double murder case of the wealthy Peck family. I love driving down Plymouth Avenue and viewing mansions of old and present. It is an interestingly sad story which mentions so many landmarks and adds to my knowledge of history in......more

Goodreads review by Alicia on March 09, 2022

Goodreads is slipping a little here because I just added a hardcover book that's been out for a month and it doesn't have the cover loaded and now this book doesn't have the audiobook version (which I clearly listened to) to select from-- alas! Via Hoopla I read this very neatly detailed story of a......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on September 06, 2017

Great nonfiction book. Glad I read it.......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on January 19, 2020

It was a very interesting read pertinent to Grand Rapids despite most of it occurring in New York. None the less, it was an intriguing story about a murderer who seemed to have a solid plan and had he been more patienf, might have gotten away with it.......more

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