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ADAMS, SYLVIA / REF : CHARLEY LUCKEY This Weather of Hangmen - Charley Luckey in Leeds County - Canada's Murder Mystery of 1892
Toronto: General Pub, 1996. First. Soft Cover. 6 x 9" 189618264X 1996 softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned ... feltpen line bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ...268 pages ... This is written as a novel ... It is actually of a spectacular and horrendous True crime ... But was it murder ? ... Did Charley Luckey copy Lizzie Borden ? ... Would investigator Greer - disciple of The Great Detective, John Wilson Murray - solve Canada's famous mystery of 1892 ? ... James Luckey and his whole family ... wife Martha and daughter Mary Ann, are found killed in their farmhouse at Newbliss Ontario ... Son Charles, fresh out of prison is known by the local townspeople to have been on bad terms with his father and step-mother ... Was that him who was seen in the area on the night of the awful murders? ... The author exploits her unique knowledge of historic Leeds County, the internal workings of a Crown Attorney's office and the ways of the legal profession ... Author Sylvia Adams has produced a thoroughly good read and a remarkable portrayal of rural Ontario , outside Toronto, a century ago ... "This Weather of Hangmen " ... by Sylvia Adams ... published by General Publishing, Toronto ***. New .
Offered for US$ 14.95 by: Cavendish International Books & Music - Book number: 5243
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