Description: Hardcover Cloth 338 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Fine. Stated First edition Ninth printing 2017 with corresponding number line. Beautiful cream and red boards with gold embossing shows off this Clean and tight copy with no marks or highlights. Previous owner's bookplate opposite first title page. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition with no shelf wear. Undamaged corners. Crease in back cover. An unclipped dust jacket clean and brilliant with no wrinkles and chips protected by mylar cover. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Basis for the Martin Scorsese film. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. Her older sister was shot. Her mother was then slowly poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances. In this last remnant of the Wild West-where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes such as Al Spencer, "the Phantom Terror," roamed - virtually anyone who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what became one of the organization's first major homicide investigations. But the bureau was then notoriously corrupt and initially bungled the case. Eventually the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau. They infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most sinister conspiracies in American history. A true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.
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Signed By: NONE
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Book Series: Unknown
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Inscribed: No
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Type: Hardcover
Personalized: No
Features: First Edition, Dust Jacket, Hardcover
Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
Book Title: Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Murder / General, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Law Enforcement, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Criminology, Native American
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 1.2 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, True Crime, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 21.8 Oz
Item Length: 9.6 in
Author: David Grann
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
