They Hanged my Saintly Billy
$42.21
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2019
Summary
As described by its author, They Hanged My Saintly Billy is “A novel filled with sex, drink, dope, horse racing, incest, suicides, murders, scandalous legal proceedings, cross examinations, inquests and a good public hanging.“A real historical figure, the British surgeon Dr. William Palmer was accused in 1856 of murdering fourteen people by means of poison. The Dr. Kevorkian trial of the 19th century, with a bit of O.J. Simpson mixed in for good measure, the scandal entranced nearly the entir…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781609807641 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1609807642 |
| Author: | Robert Graves |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 367g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
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“A must for true-crime addicts and recommended to those interested in period novels as well.” - Kirkus Review
“A must for true-crime addicts and recommended to those interested in period novels as well.” –Kirkus Review
About The Author
Robert Graves
ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985) was a preeminent English poet, novelist, critic, translator, and scholar of classical mythology. He served in World War I–an experience recounted in his 1929 autobiography, Good-Bye to All That–and later became the first professor of English literature at the University of Cairo. Best remembered today for his acclaimed historical novels about the Roman emperor Claudius, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, his other books include The White Goddess, The Hebrew Myths, and Collected Poems.
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