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Proof of Guilt : Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cairns, Kathleen A., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
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