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Skull in the ashes : murder, a gold rush manhunt, and the birth of circumstantial evidence in America /

On a February night in 1897, the general store in Walford, Iowa, burned down. The next morning, townspeople discovered a charred corpse in the ashes. Everyone knew that the store's owner, Frank Novak, had been sleeping in the store as a safeguard against burglars. Now all that remained were a f...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kaufman, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2013]
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