Robert Reynolds: 504 books

Soon after midnight on March 25, 1958 a Braniff Airways DC-7C plummeted from the sky. Disaster occurred soon after takeoff from Miami International Airport. A nearby nightwatchman saw the plane's impact and heard the screams of the fifteen survivors on board. The crash was the first ever at Miami...

Grace Roberts was a model and woman of important social circles in Philadelphia almost 100 years ago. Her image was frequently seen on hosiery products throughout America. Her horribly disfigured body was found by police on December 30th clad in her pajamas. She had been murdered inside her lavish...

Jo Collins is one of the most popular women to ever pose for Playboy Magazine. The editors of the publication discovered her while she was working as a page for a television show. The daughter of a wood cutter/apartment manager Collins was raised near Eugene, Oregon. Her fame has endured for decades...

A French built Caravelle III jet leased to Middle East Airlines of Beirut, Lebanon crashed on the edge of the Persian Gulf during a violent sandstorm on April 17, 1964. No survivors among a large group of Arabian American Oil Company personnel and their families were found. The wreckage of Flight...

Milwaukee Phil Alderisio was a Mafia crime boss in Chicago in the 1960s. My e-book looks at a bank fraud conspiracy involving him and three co-conspirators. During 1965 the criminal group stole approximately $89,000 from a bank in suburban Chicago. One of the ring leaders of the theft was a former...

Four young women were brutally murdered in the Washington D.C. area between 1929 and 1935. Two of the women were strangled, one was strangled and beaten and another was shot with a .25 caliber pistol. None of the murders was successfully solved. My e-book focuses on the details of each crime, including...

Two alternative treatments for measles epidemics were used beginning in 1929. Amidopyrine was first employed by a Chicago physician who later became known for a breakthrough treatment of meningococcal meningitis. He began using amidopyrine by 1929. Gamma globulin was made available for use to the...

Marie Prevost is in many ways an example of the tragedy wrought by the advent of sound motion picture production. The Ontario-born beauty was as big a star as any in silent cinema films from 1924-1928. Yet her weight and thick New England accent both presented problems when she spoke in sound movie...

Tobruk's proximity to the Egyptian border is one of the reasons that it became the focus of Allied/Axis military operations in the early stages of World War II. It is also the best harbor between Egypt and Tripoli in western Libya. The British 8th Army began to overwhelm the Italian occupying force...

The DC3 airliner that crashed into 2,000 foot Mt. Torment in Quebec on September 9, 1949 was destined for Baie Comeau. On board were 19 passengers and a crew of four. One of the passengers, Rita Guay, was the wife of a Quebec City jeweler who had taken out a $10,000 life insurance policy on her two...

Palmistry may have been practiced as early as 3000 B.C. Regardless of the exact date of origin it has been a tool for understanding life throughout the ages of mankind. Gypsies used it and were sometimes regarded as notorious from their practice of palm reading. In the early 20th Century the West...

Raleigh and Wake County, North Carolina are prominent in the history of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad and Southern Railway companies. By 1880 they maintained offices in North Carolina's capitol city, on Halifax and Fayetteville Streets (downtown). My eBook is a directory of biographies of railroad...

The coral snake is a burrowing and secretive snake. For this reason alone there are sparse encounters between humans and this reptile. However, especially with the rise of camping and outdoor activities, humans have firsthand contact with them. My e-book tells about people who have come across contact...

Northern Pacific Railway Employees in Fargo North Dakota contains lots of information for genealogical/ancestral researchers. It profiles individual employees, i.e. where they lived in Fargo/Moorhead, MN, their job titles, where they came to Fargo from, i.e. Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Canada, Minnesota,...