Killers of the Flower Moon : oil, money, murder and the birth of the FBI / David Grann.
Publication details: London : Simon & Schuster, 2017.Description: 338 pages : map, illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781471140266 (paperback)
- 9780857209023
- 1471140261
- 0857209027
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Case studies
- Osage Indians -- Crimes against -- Case studies
- Murder -- Oklahoma -- Osage County -- Case studies
- Homicide investigation -- Oklahoma -- Osage County -- Case studies
- Osage Indians -- Crimes against
- Murder -- Oklahoma -- Osage County
- Homicide investigation -- Oklahoma -- Osage County
- Osage Indians -- Crimes against -- Case studies
- Murder -- Oklahoma -- Osage County -- Case studies
- Homicide investigation -- Oklahoma -- Osage County -- Case studies
- Osage County (Okla.) -- History -- 20th century
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- Winner 2018 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Winner 2018 Anthony Award for Best Non-fiction Crime.
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 976.6 GRA | Available | 067771 |
Maps on endpapers.
Chronicle one: The marked woman -- The vanishing -- An act of God or man? -- King of the Osage Hills -- Underground reservation -- The devil's disciples -- Million dollar elm -- This thing of darkness -- Chronicle two: The evidence man -- Department of easy virtue -- The undercover cowboys -- Eliminating the impossible -- The third man -- A wilderness of mirrors -- A hangman's son -- Dying words -- The hidden face -- For the betterment of the Bureau -- The quick-draw artist, the yegg, and the soup man -- The state of the game -- A traitor to his blood -- So help you God! -- The hot house -- Chronicle three: The reporter -- Ghostlands -- A case not closed -- Standing in two worlds -- The lost manuscript -- Blood cries out.
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
Winner 2018 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime.
Winner 2018 Anthony Award for Best Non-fiction Crime.