Lawrence P. Gooley has written many books related to Adirondack/northern New York history and true crime. A few examples are listed below. To view all the author’s books, please visit his website.
Escape from Dannemora: 170 Years of Escapes, Tortures, and Infamous Inmates at New York’s Most Notorious Prison
Paperback, 6 x 9, 311 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1939216427
ISBN-10: 1939216427
Publisher: Bloated Toe Publishing
Published: 2015
Escape from Dannemora (2015) includes the story of the 2015 escape, the long history of violence and horrible tortures at Clinton, a look at escape attempts and more than three dozen breakouts, plus profiles of many famous and infamous criminals who were incarcerated at Dannemora.
Available online via the publisher’s online store (The North Country Store), and through Adirondack-region stores.
People & Places of the Adirondacks & Foothills, Volume 6
Paperback, 5¼ x 8¼, 208 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1939216403
ISBN-10: 1939216400
Publisher: Bloated Toe Publishing
Published: 2015
People & Places of the Adirondacks & Foothills, Volume 6 (2015) contains a variety of story types: original works of hard history, the lives of unusual people, noteworthy accomplishments, groundbreaking inventions, remarkable mishaps, oddities, and humor. Included in this volume: Rescue on Wallface Mountain, Joe Bromley, Robert Henry Perkins, William Rush Merriam, Mirror Girl of Saranac Lake, Charles Monroe Dickinson, Ella Frances Lynch, Theodorus Bailey, Hog-Pen Charley, Norman Kingsley, Benjamin R. Stickney, Alonzo Clark, Benny Rolfe, Cornelius Carter, Edward G. Shortt, and more!
Available online via the publisher’s online store (The North Country Store), and through Adirondack-region stores.
Killing in the Kuyahoora Valley
Paperback, 5¼ x 8¼, 126 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1939216120
ISBN-10: 1939216125
Publisher: Bloated Toe Publishing
Published: 2013
Killing in the Kuyahoora Valley (2013) is the true story of a murderous attack in 1914 by a teenager in the village of Poland, New York. Kuyahoora, the native-American name for West Canada Creek, is located in Herkimer County. Poland, in the southern Adirondack foothills, is about 15 miles northeast of Utica.
Available online via the publisher’s online store (The North Country Store), and through Adirondack-region stores.
25 Diabolical Adirondack Murders: The Twisted, Fiendish Deeds of North Country Killers
Paperback, 6 x 9, 272 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0983692539
ISBN-10: 098369253X
Publisher: Bloated Toe Publishing
Published: 2012
25 Diabolical Adirondack Murders: The Twisted, Fiendish Deeds of North Country Killers (2012) contains twenty-five complete stories of murder in the North Country. The perpetrators range from average citizens to some of the worst degenerates imaginable. Their methods run the gamut from poison to clubs to knives to guns to axes, while their stories contain shocking revelations and remarkable twists, far too many to count.
In 2013, a Watertown-area murder included in the book was featured in a Discovery ID Halloween special, Bloody Marys. The author provided voice-over and commentary for the segment.
Available online via the publisher’s online store (The North Country Store), and through Adirondack-region stores.
Oliver’s War: An Adirondack Rebel Battles the Rockefeller Fortune
Paperback, 6 x 9, 196 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0979574108
ISBN-10: 0979574102
Publisher: Bloated Toe Publishing
Published: 2007
Also available as an eBook (EPUB and MOBI)
Oliver’s War: An Adirondack Rebel Battles the Rockefeller Fortune (2007) is the true story of Oliver Lamora’s struggle against William Rockefeller (brother of John D. Rockefeller). For a decade in the early 1900s, their saga gripped newspaper readers from coast to coast.
Winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing Award for Best Book of Nonfiction.
Available online via the publisher’s online store (The North Country Store), and through Adirondack-region stores.
