Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI / David Grann.
Record details
- ISBN: 1524755931
- ISBN: 9781524755935
- ISBN: 9781524755935 : PAP
- ISBN: 1524755931 : PAP
- ISBN: 9781524755935 (paperback)
- ISBN: 1524755931 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 492 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First large print edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2017]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-487). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Chronicle one: The marked woman -- The vanishing -- An act of God or man? -- King of the Osage Hills -- Underground reservation -- The devil's disciples -- Million dollar elm -- This thing of darkness -- Chronicle two: The evidence man -- Department of easy virtue -- The undercover cowboys -- Eliminating the impossible -- The third man -- A wilderness of mirrors -- A hangman's son -- Dying words -- The hidden face -- For the betterment of the Bureau -- The quick-draw artist, the yegg, and the soup man -- The state of the game -- A traitor to his blood -- So help you God! -- The hot house -- Chronicle three: The reporter -- Ghostlands -- A case not closed -- Standing in two worlds -- The lost manuscript -- Blood cries out. |
Summary, etc.: | In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances. In this last remnant of the Wild West -- where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the "Phantom Terror," roamed -- many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization's first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case. In desperation, the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. |
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Genre: | Large type books. True crime stories. |
Available copies
- 2 of 13 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 0 of 1 copy available at Kent Memorial Library - Suffield. (Show preferred library)
Holds
- 6 current holds with 13 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | LARGE PRINT 976.6004 G (Text) | 32518151129270 | Adult Large Type | Checked out | 04/01/2024 |
Brookfield Library | 976.6004/GRANN LARGE PRINT (Text) | 34029141049139 | Adult Nonfiction Large Type | On holds shelf | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | LP 976.6 GRA (Text) | 34014140317786 | Adult Large Type | In transit | - |
Killingworth Library Association | LP 976.6004 GRA (Text) | 33420145053741 | Adult Large Type | Checked out | 04/08/2024 |
Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | 976.6 Gra LP (Text) | 33620131428456 | Adult Large Type | On holds shelf | - |
Milford Public Library | 976.6 G (Text) | 34013150869959 | Adult Nonfiction Large Type | Checked out | 04/15/2024 |
Plumb Memorial Library - Shelton | 976.6 GRA L.T. ed. (Text) | 34025155681072 | Adult Large Type | On holds shelf | - |
Ridgefield Library | LP 976.6 GRA (Text) | 34010155605321 | Adult Nonfiction Large Type | Checked out | 04/13/2024 |
Salem Free Public Library | LP 976.6004 GRA (Text) | 33640152610428 | Adult Nonfiction Large Type | Checked out | 04/08/2024 |
Sherman Library | 976.6 GRA (Text) | 34060155905742 | Adult New Large Type | Checked out | 03/16/2024 |
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