Wicked Charleston, Mark R. Jones
Wicked Charleston, Mark R. Jones
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Wicked Charleston
The Dark Side of the Holy City

Author: Mark R. Jones

Narrator: Clark Cornell

Unabridged: 4 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/13/2022


Synopsis

Wicked Charleston: The Dark Side of the Holy City, by local resident and tour guide Mark R. Jones, explores the dark alleys and seedy characters not often associated with the Charleston of today.

A beautiful Southern city distinguished by its opulent homes, towering church steeples, and hospitality, Charleston, South Carolina, has long been associated with the genteel side of Southern living. However, beyond the outward appearances that most people associate with Charleston, there is another side that most visitors and residents would dare not believe is part of the very fabric from which the city's history was woven. From the sexual escapades of an original Lord Proprietor and the comings and goings of the most notorious pirates, to secret brothels and nightclubs, Jones leads the reader back to a time when "drinking, eating, and whoring with more than fifty wenches" was perhaps more common in the Holy City than one may imagine.

About Mark R. Jones

Mark R. Jones is a ninth-generation native of South Carolina. He is a licensed City of Charleston tour guide, conducting carriage tours for Palmetto Carriage and daytime history and nighttime ghost tours for Bulldog Walking Tours. Mark is also one of a select group of guides who conducts the Dark Side of Charleston Tour for Bulldog: the tour that inspired the writing of the Wicked Charleston books. The Dark Side is the only non-ghost nighttime tour in Charleston. On average, Mark conducts twenty tours a week, about one thousand per year. He is the author of Wicked Charleston: The Dark Side of the Holy City, which covers the history of the founding of Charles Towne from a unique perspective: drinking, prostitution, and murder. The Charleston Post and Courier called the book a solid (if tipsy) foundation for the revelry to come. Wicked Charleston, Volume 2 is the continuation of that revelry. In his free time, Mark is always on the prowl for new salacious stories about Charleston.


Reviews

Goodreads review by KB on May 16, 2024

Listened to this one - I think that was the better choice. Learned a lot about Charleston that I didn’t know! not for everyone though.......more

Goodreads review by James on February 13, 2013

Ever read a book and wish you had written it? Here's one of the best books about Charleston that I've ever read. Even with a re-read, it's still surprising how unbelievably and delightfully sinful the history of the 'Holy City' really is. No ghosts (although there is a great chapter about Lavinia Fi......more

Goodreads review by Tina on August 21, 2019

My friend bought this book in a thrift shop in Utah, of all places, and gave it to me as gift when she came to visit. It was an entertaining read and eye-opening description of slavery. Most history books gloss over slavery, this one gave some very interesting details. If I was a history teacher I w......more

Goodreads review by Dawn on December 17, 2017

I just love a bit of true crime, especially when it's all about the area where I live and places I know.......more

Goodreads review by Fishface on February 16, 2016

This one was just OK. The main virtue of the book it that it leads you to a lot of other reading so you can find out much more about the 10 cases discussed in Jones's summaries of the situations.......more