Scoundrel how a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment, and the courts to set him free

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"From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him-including conservative thinker William F. Buckley-into helping set him free"-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

9780063211087
0063211084

Edition:

First Harper Large Print edition

Description:

xi, 581 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
large print

Notes:

Canadiana
Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Part I. The sand pit (1957)
Part II. The death house (1958
1962)
Part III. The conservative (1962-1966)
Part IV. Making the brief (1967-1968)
Part V. Reasonable doubts (1969-1971)
Part VI. Getting out (1971-1976)
Part VII. Boiling over (1976-1979)
Part VIII. Stayin in (1980-2017)

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3176909

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