Madness, Mayhem and Murder
More True Tales of Crime and Justice from Nova Scotia's Past
- Publisher
- Pottersfield Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2021
- Category
- Sentencing
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781989725610
- Publish Date
- Jul 2021
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
Meet the larger-than-life characters from Nova Scotia's past who broke the law as well as the mold.
About the author
Dean Jobb is an award-winning author and journalist and a professor at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program. He is the author of eight previous books, including Empire Of Deception, which the New York Times Book Review called “intoxicating and impressively researched” and the Chicago Writers Association named the Nonfiction Book of the Year. Jobb has written for major newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Tribune, Toronto’s Globe and Mail, and the Irish Times. He writes a monthly true-crime column, “Stranger Than Fiction,” for Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. His work as an investigative reporter has been nominated for Canada’s National Newspaper and National Magazine awards, and Jobb is a three-time winner of Atlantic Canada’s top journalism award.