Running with Dillinger: The Story of Red Hamilton and Other Forgotten Canadian Outlaws Contributor(s): Butts, Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 1550026836 ISBN-13: 9781550026832 Publisher: Dundurn Group OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Criminals & Outlaws - True Crime - History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-) |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.02" W x 8.92" (0.82 lbs) 232 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book picks up where The Desperate Ones: Canada's Forgotten Outlaws left off. Here are more remarkable true stories about Canadian crimes and criminals -- most of them tales that have been buried for years. The stories begin in colonial Newfoundland, with robbery and murder committed by the notorious Power Gang. As readers travel across the country and through time, they will meet the last two men to be hanged in Prince Edward Island, smugglers who made lake Champlain a battleground, a counterfeiter whose bills were so good they fooled even bank managers, and teenage girls who committed murder in their escape from jail. They will meet the bandits who plundered banks and trains in Eastern Canada and the West, and even the United States. Among them were Same Behan, a robber whose harrowing testimony about the brutal conditions in the Kingston Penitentiary may have brought about his untimely death in The Hole; and John Red Hamilton, the Canadian-born member of the legendary Dillinger gang. |
Contributor Bio(s): Butts, Edward: - Edward Butts is the author of numerous books, including Murder, Line of Fire, Running With Dillinger, True Canadian Unsolved Mysteries, and The Desperate Ones, which was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award. He lives in Guelph, Ontario. |