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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xxi, 204 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective story-beautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in the murder of an elderly widow during a botched robbery attempt, "Bloody Babs" became the third woman executed in California-after a 1953 trial that played out before standing-room-only crowds captured the imaginations of journalists, filmmakers, and death penalty opponents. Why, Kathleen A. Cairns asks,...
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