Killers, Thieves, Tramps & Sinners - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864921144 ISBN 13: 9780864921147

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For this vivid, detailed, fascinating account of crimes and criminals -- from con men to murderers -- Peter McGahan has gathered his information from newspapers and official records. He tells the stories of the outcasts, vagabonds, rogues, cheating husbands, thieves, and killers, who have populated the darker corners of Maritime history.

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In January, 1896, a young girl was murdered in her home in Bear River, Nova Scotia. In October of the same year, a fire at a house in Meadow Brook, New Brunswick, masked a robbery and a beating. The murder at Bear River, the Meadow Brook tragedy, the problems with vagrants in Charlottetown . . . For this vivid account of crimes and criminals -- from con-men to murderers, from vagrants to bigamists -- Peter McGahan has gathered information from newspapers and official records to tell the stories of the outcasts, vagabonds, thieves and killers who populate the darker corners of Maritime history. In McGahan's account, the "world we have lost" in the Maritimes was not a peaceful world. There were preachers who were also bigamists; policemen who were motivated by revenge; ordinary citizens who suddenly engaged in "unnatural" acts. Indeed, Killers, Thieves, Tramps & Sinners demonstrates that where crime is concerned, the boundaries are not set by geography but by the unpredictable impulses of men and women.

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• ISBN 10: 0864921144
• ISBN 13: 9780864921147
• Einband: Tapa blanda