A Dark and Bloody Ground: A True Story of Lust, Greed, and Murder in the Bluegrass State
An Edgar Award-winning author's true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky-and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed. Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation A Dark and Bloody Ground more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, called in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985. Acker's own life hung in the balance, but it was already too late for his college-age daughter, Tammy, savagely stabbed eleven times and pinned by a kitchen knife to her bedroom floor. Three men had breached Dr. Acker's alarm and security systems and made off with the fortune he had stashed aw…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5040-0820-4
- EAN: 9781504008204
- Produktnummer: 25396537
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.3 cm x D2.2 cm 449 g
- Gewicht: 449
Über den Autor
Darcy O'Brien (1939-1998) was born in Los Angeles, California. He is a bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, including the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning novel A Way of Life, Like Any Other, based on his experiences with his movie-star parents, George O'Brien and Marguerite Churchill; The Hidden Pope, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; The Hillside Stranglers, which became a bestseller and was made into an NBC TV movie; and Murder in Little Egypt, winner of the Edgar Award. O'Brien's knowledge of the field of criminal justice made him a frequent speaker and panelist on television and radio, and he published numerous articles in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, among others.
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