The old man and the gun
and other tales of true crime
First Vintage Books movie tie-in edition.
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Word Count
33,250 words, Guess
Page Count
133 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26975539M
- ISBN-100525566031
- ISBN-139780525566038
- OCLC Control Number1041797144
- Better World Books9780525566038
Classifications
- DDC364.1
- LCCHV6233 .G73 2018
- LCCHV6251
Alternate Titles
- Old man & the gun
Description
Selection of the journalist's articles previously published in various periodicals. Grann revels in telling stories that explore the nature of obsession. In these three cases, originally published in The devil and Sherlock Holmes, he profiles a bank robber and prison escape artist who, even in his seventies, refuses to retire ; a Polish detective looking for clues to an actual murder in a novelist's fiction; and a French imposter who assumes the identity of a missing boy from Texas. -- adapted from back cover.
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