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Law Sentencing

Madness, Mayhem and Murder

More True Tales of Crime and Justice from Nova Scotia's Past

by (author) Dean Jobb

Publisher
Pottersfield Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2021
Category
Sentencing
  • 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.
 

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