Dead ends : B.C. crime stories / author, Paul Willcocks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willcocks, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--British Columbia--History.

Crime.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages)

Place of Publication:

Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Forty crimes. Forty crimes of betrayal, greed, and desperation. Forty crimes that shed light on our shared past, and our lives today. Murderers and scam artists. Masterminds and bunglers. The infamous and the forgotten. Dead Ends looks at them all. Leo Mantha, the last man hanged in B.C. Wong Foon Sing, the Chinese houseboy kidnapped and tortured by the police. Pickton and the Pattison kidnappers. Olson and the McLean Boys. Our crimes define us. Dead Ends shows us how.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Milkshake Murderer

Crazy Eddie

The Indian Problem

The Big Con

Women We Killed

Officers Down

Kidnapped

Hockey on Trial

Sex On-Camera

Gentleman Outlaw

Waiting Demons

Those McLean Boys

Vanished

Murder at Sea

Th Boogeyman

Deadly Massacre

The Rockefeller Con

The Beast

Forgiveness

Whose Body Is This?

Smugglers and Death

Stealing the World

Hockey Night

Mayday, Mayday, Mayday

Go Home!

Suburban Terrorists

Bomb on a Train

Escape to the Wild

Terror in the Sky

Gangland Eden

The Fallen Bishop

Saving the Children

Vigilante Injustice

Welcome to Canada

Juror Gangster

The Good Boy Killers

Martyr or Myth?

Cold Case

Last Man Hanged

Sources

About the Author

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780889773509

0889773505

9780889773493

0889773491

OCLC:

890957235