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Author Burnet, Graeme Macrae, 1967- author.

Title His bloody project : documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae ; a historical thriller / edited and introduced by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2016]
copyright 2015

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Fiction  MY F BURNET    ---  Available
Edition First Skyhorse Publishing edition 2016.
Description 290 pages ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Originally published by Contraband Publishing in 2015.
Contents Preface -- Statements by residents of Culduie -- Map of Culduie and the surrounding area -- The account of Roderick Macrae -- Glossary -- Medical reports -- Extract from Travels in the border-lands of lunacy by J. Bruce Thomson -- The trial -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements.
Indexed In: Junior Library Guild
Summary A unique approach to crime fiction, His Bloody Project consists of the fictional memoir of a murderer, followed by various statements, maps of the murder scene, medical reports, and testimonies that question the sanity of the narrator.
Audience Ages 16 & up.
Grades 11 & up.
Awards Finalist, The Man Booker Prize 2016.
Subject Legal documents -- Juvenile fiction.
Murder -- Scotland -- 19th century -- Case studies -- Juvenile fiction.
Trials (Murder) -- Scotland -- Case studies -- Juvenile fiction.
Murder -- Scotland -- 19th century -- Case studies -- Fiction.
Trials (Murder) -- Scotland -- Case studies -- Fiction.
Murder -- Scotland -- 19th century -- Case studies -- Fiction.
Trials (Murder) -- Scotland -- Case studies -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Diary fiction.
Historical fiction.
Legal drama.
Diary fiction.
Historical fiction.
Legal drama.
Historical fiction.
Legal stories.
Added Title Case of Roderick Macrae
ISBN 9781510719217 (hardcover) : 17.30

 
    
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