Scoundrel : how a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment, and the courts to set him free
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063211087
- ISBN: 0063211084
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Physical Description:
large print
xi, 581 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm - Edition: First Harper large print edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Part I: The sand pit (1957). "Where is Vickie?" -- The Mercury -- "If you're looking for a fall guy..." -- Openings -- "I just threw it out the window" -- "Eddie and Don aren't friends anymore" -- "It can't be" -- Part II: The death house (1958-1962). Patricia -- Divorces -- Part III: The conservative (1962-1966). A "lifetime" subscription -- "My God, I wish I could be absolutely certain" -- Meeting in Trenton -- Waiting for death -- Part IV: Making the brief (1967-1968). Lunch at Paone's -- "They must think I am Houdini" -- Blood, nerves, vibrations -- Hatkic -- March to publication -- The breach -- Brief against death -- Part V: Reasonable doubts (1969-1971). Rogue's wake -- A reasonable doubt -- Bid for a new trial -- Conviction overturned -- Part VI: Getting out (1971-1976). Non vult -- Freedom's first dawn -- The celebrity convict -- Counterpoint -- Paige -- Part VII: Boiling over (1976-1979). Rage, revived -- On the run -- arrested again -- "The saga of a bad man" -- "Used and betrayed" -- Part VIII: Staying in (1980-2017). A strange triangle -- Vacaville -- Coda: 1948. |
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Genre: | Large type books. Biography. Biographies. True crime stories. Biographies. True crime stories. Biographies. Récits criminels. |
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Homer Public Library | LP 364.152 WEI (Text) | 000165711 | Large Print -- Nonfiction | Available | - |