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Swift Justice: Murder & Vengeance In A California Town

19 reviews
Harry Farrell

St. Martin's Griffin, 1992

Definitely swift, possibly just, certainly very troubling
I must admit, I have a biased viewpoint. As a descendant of not one, not two, but three people who were summarily executed without the benefit of due process (one was most probably guilty --- the other two probably were not), accounts such as the San Jose Lynching tend to rub a raw nerve with me. In a brisk, wonderfully written narrative, the author sets the stage and lets the events unfold to ...

Shallow Grave in Trinity County

14 reviews
Harry Farrell

St Martins Pr, 1999

Shallow Grave in Trinity County
This book is a well written documentary of a fourteen year old girl who was abducted and murdered on her way home from school in Oakland , California in the mid 1950's. It tells of the police investigation and eventual apprehension and trial of the man believed to have been her killer. The time, place and people in this true story all relate to my experience at that time period when I was ...