| Breaking Blue Contributor(s): Egan, Timothy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1570614296 ISBN-13: 9781570614293 Publisher: Sasquatch Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2004 Annotation: On the night of September 4, 1935, during a season of unsolved robberies, the town marshal of Pend Oreille County in the state of Washington was shot to death. Here is the story of how one man's hunt through a half century of police cover-ups unlocked the secret behind the nation's oldest continuing murder investigation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General - Social Science | Criminology - Social Science | Violence In Society |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| LCCN: 2004049113 |
| Lexile Measure: 1110 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.62" W x 8.48" (0.68 lbs) 243 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Oregon - Geographic Orientation - Washington |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony Bamonte discovered a strange 1955 deathbed confession while researching a thesis on local law enforcement history. Bamonte began to probe what had every appearance of widespread police crime and a massive cover-up whose highlight was the unsolved murder of Town Marshall George Conff. The fact that many of those involved, now in their 80s and 90s, were still alive made it imperative that Bamonte unravel this mystery. The result is Breaking Blue, a white-knuckle ride through institutional corruption and cover-up that vividly documents Depression-era Spokane and an extraordinary case that few believed would ever be brought to light. |