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Author Adler, Jeffrey S.

Title First in violence, deepest in dirt [electronic resource] : homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920 / Jeffrey S. Adler.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 367 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-357) and index.
Contents "So you refuse to drink with me, do you?" -- "I loved my wife so I killed her" -- "He got what he deserved" -- "If ever that black dog crosses the threshold of my house, I will kill him" -- "The dead man's hand" -- "A good place to drown babies" -- "A butcher at the stockyard killing sheep."
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Homicide -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Murder -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0674021495 (alk. paper)
9780674021495

 
    
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