Murder, Honor, and Law: 4 Virginia Homicides from Reconstruction to the Great Depression

ISBN-10: 0813922089
ISBN-13: 9780813922089
Category: Murder
Pages: 263
Language: English
Published: 2003
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Author: Richard F. Hamm

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