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422 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
CRIME & MYSTERY. In 1970, Harold Stamp, a retarded twenty-year-old was convicted on disputed evidence and a retracted confession of brutally murdering his grandmother the one person who understood and protected him. Less than three years later he is dead, driven to suicide by isolation and despair. A fate befitting a murderer, perhaps, but what if he were innocent? Thirty years on, Jonathan Hughes, an anthropologist specialising in social stereotyping, comes across the case by accident. He finds alarming disparities in the evidence and has little doubt that Stamp's conviction was a terrible miscarriage of justice. But how far is he prepared to go in the search for justice? Is the forgotten story of one friendless young man compelling enough to make him leave his books and face his own demons? And with what result? If Stamp didn't murder Grace Jeffries then somebody else did, which means there's a dangerous killer still at large |
| Subject |
Mystery and detective stories.
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Anthropologists -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction)
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Thriller/Suspense
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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| ISBN |
1741142121 paperback |
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1405034173 paperback |
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1405034165 : |
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1741142113 : |
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