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Sandford, Christopher

Summary: "When Arthur Conan Doyle was a lonely 7-year-old schoolboy at pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh, a French émigré named Eugene Chantrelle was engaged there to teach Modern Languages. A few years later, Chantrelle would be hanged for the particularly grisly murder of his wife, marking the beginning of Conan Doyle's own association with some of the bloodiest crimes of the Victorian and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martins Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN SAN

Abrams, Dan

Summary: Examines the story behind the bizarre trial of Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, live on national television.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 ABR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 345.73 ABR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ABR

Toobin, Jeffrey

Summary: Examines the life of Patty Hearst who suffered an unimaginable trauma and then made the stunning decision to join her captors’ crusade.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEARST, PATTY TOO

McDaniel, W. Caleb (William Caleb)

Summary: "In Sweet Taste of Liberty, W. Caleb McDaniel focuses on the experience of a freed slave who was sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage. Henrietta Wood was born into slavery, but in 1848, she was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed. In 1855, however, a wealthy Kentucky businessman named Zebulon Ward, who colluded with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 MCD

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