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Dead Ends

B.C. Crime Stories
  • Paul Willcocks
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2014
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Forty crimes. Forty crimes of betrayal, greed, and desperation. Forty crimes that shed light on our shared past, and our lives today. Murderers and scam artists. Masterminds and bunglers. The infamous and the forgotten. Dead Ends looks at them all. Leo Mantha, the last man hanged in B.C. Wong Foon Sing, the Chinese houseboy kidnapped and tortured by the police. Pickton and the Pattison kidnappers. Olson and the McLean Boys. Our crimes define us. Dead Ends shows us how.

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Willcocks Paul :

Paul Willcocks is a journalist with over 30 years of experience. He has won a Michener Award, received a Jack Webster Award for being BC's best columnist, and has been a National Magazine Writing finalist many times.

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"Shocking, appalling…and true."


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September 29, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9780889773509
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