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edition:eBook
also available: Paperback
category: True Crime
published: Sep 2014
ISBN:9780889773509
publisher: University of Regina Press
imprint: U of R Press

Dead Ends

B.C. Crime Stories

by Paul Willcocks

tagged: criminals & outlaws
Description

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.

About the Author
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.
Editorial Review

"Shocking, appalling…and true."

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