Devil's Garden
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Quinn Colson series comes a noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history.San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel-girls, jazz, bootleg hooch...and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed her-crushed her under his weight-and brings him up on manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearst's newspapers stir up the public and demand a guilty verdict. In desperation, Arbuckle's defense team hires an operative from the famed Pink…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-101-02239-9
- EAN: 9781101022399
- Produktnummer: 17670693
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 409 KB
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Ace Atkins is the New York Times bestselling author of the Quinn Colson novels, the first two of which-The Ranger and The Lost Ones-were nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel (he also has a third Edgar nomination for his short story, Last Fair Deal Gone Down). In addition, he is the author of several New York Times bestselling novels in the continuation of Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. Before turning to fiction, he was a correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times, a crime reporter for the Tampa Tribune, and, in college, played defensive end for the undefeated Auburn University football team (for which he was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated). He lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
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