VON COSEL

About the Book

It happened in KEY WEST:
The greatest love story since THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

"Swicegood casts a powerful light upon this compelling tale a fascinating journey of an obviously brilliant mind to the limits of sanity. The manuscript kept me spellbound."
Charles "Sonny" McCoy
Five time Mayor of Key West

"A wonderful job of telling a horror-love story based upon an actual event I read it in one sitting-couldn't put it down."
Rev. Elder Troy Perry, Founder
Metropolitan Community Church

"Well written one of the most macabre events in Key West's annals."
Norman Artman, former Editor-Publisher
The Key West Citizen

"Tom Swicegood has given new insight into the strange love of Count von Cosel for Elena Hoyos exciting and lively kind and gentle as the Count would have told it."
Tom Hambright, Monroe County Historian

About the Author

VON COSEL

Tom Swicegood is a master storyteller. His Von Cosel takes its place among the finest full-bodied tales of Key West, most notably Reap the Wild Wind by Thelma Strabel and the gutsy To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway. The notable difference is that this infamous tale, having thrilled and chilled millions in newspaper reports, pulp magazines, and by word of mouth, is not fiction. Here, at last, it is presented by an accomplished author who actually knew the people involved.

Other books by Tom Swicegood, either currently available or soon to be published, include:

OUR GOD TOO?the human and spiritual story of the founders of Metropolitan Community Church.

THE INTOXICATED TAXI?ribald and hilarious adventurers in the cab of a member of Alcoholics Anonymous.