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Murder Most Foul

by (author) Max Haines

Publisher
Penguin Group Canada
Initial publish date
Nov 2000
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780670882922
    Publish Date
    Oct 1999
    List Price
    $29.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780451200471
    Publish Date
    Nov 2000
    List Price
    $10.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780140278668
    Publish Date
    Oct 2000
    List Price
    $9.99

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Description

In this compendium of weird and wacky criminal cases, Canada’s most popular crime columnist brings us more than fifty murders from eleven countries around the world.

Meet Jerry Rosenberg, America’s foremost jailhouse lawyer. While in prison for the murder of two New York police officers, he earned a law degree. He now has a lively practice representing other prisoners. Meet Norman “Red” Ryan, convicted of armed bank robbery but who was so reformed after serving a portion of his sentence that they changed Canadian law so he could be released early—only to have his life come to an ironic end when he was gunned down in an armed robbery. Meet Herbert McAuliffe, whose counterfeiting scheme in Canadian coins came to an abrupt end with his realization that it was costing more to produce the coins than he was making in profits. Turning to bank robbery, his string of bad luck continued.

This is another surefire collection from Canada’s master of true crime!

About the author

Max Haines’s “Crime Flashback” column made its debut in the Toronto Sun in 1972. Since that time, he has researched more than two thousand murder cases from around the world. Today, “Crime Flashback” appears weekly in the Toronto Sun and is syndicated around the world and in more than forty newspapers across Canada. The column has a weekly readership of more than three million and has been translated into Spanish, French and Chinese. Haines is also the author of twenty-five bestselling anthologies of crime vignettes, including Unnatural Causes, Canadian Crimes, Murder Most Foul and The Collected Works of Max Haines: Volume Four. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Marilyn.

 

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