Debra Komar

Broschiertes Buch

The Lynching of Peter Wheeler

Beschreibung

In the winter of 1896, young Annie Kempton was brutally murdered. Throat slashed, face beaten, she bled to death on the floor of her family home in Bear River, Nova Scotia. An entire community and a salacious media rose and pointed their finger at one man: Peter Wheeler. According to the newspapers of the day, not only had Peter Wheeler killed Annie Kempton, he had also committed the unforgivable sin of being dark-skinned and foreign-born, a hired hand who had never learned his place. Thanks to a Halifax detective, the self-proclaimed Sherlock Holmes of the Maritimes, Wheeler was strung up in the dead of night. The case was among the first in Canada to introduce forensic science into a courtroom. In a riveting, fast-paced narrative, Komar re-examines the evidence using modern techniques and reveals how Peter Wheeler was the victim of a state-sanctioned lynching, executed for a crime he did not commit. The Lynching of Peter Wheeler is Debra Komar's second book on historic crimes. Her first, The Ballad of Jacob Peck, was met with considerable critical acclaim.

Autor

Debra Komar is the author of The Ballad of Jacob Peck, The Lynching of Peter Wheeler, The Bastard of Fort Stikine, which won the 2016 Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, and, most recently, Black River Road. A Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and a practicing forensic anthropologist for over twenty years, she investigated human-rights violations for the United Nations and Physicians for Human Rights. She has testified as an expert witness at The Hague and throughout North America and is the author of many scholarly articles and a textbook, Forensic Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Goose Lane Editions
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780864924179
• ISBN-10: 0864924178
• Artikelnr.: 40076577