Breaking blue
(Book)
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Published
New York : Knopf, 1992.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0394588193, 9780394588193
Physical Desc
xiii, 267 pages ; 25 cm
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Cranston Central - Adult Non-Fiction | 364 .1523 EGA | On Shelf |
Harmony - Adult Non-Fiction | 364.1 EGAN | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Knopf, 1992.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
0394588193, 9780394588193
Notes
Description
In 1935, Spokane, Wash., was in the sixth year of the Great Depression. Unemployment was high. Civilian Conservation Corps workers were arriving in droves from the East for the Grand Coulee Dam project. Crime was rampant, and a series of creamery robberies had the town on edge. Then, on Sept. 4, the Pend Oreille County town marshal investigating these crimes was murdered. The mystery of George Conniff's death went unsolved until 1989, when Tony Bamonte, sheriff of Pend Oreille County and a graduate student, inadvertently uncovered information that generations of police had conspired to keep hidden. Egan ( The Good Rain ), Seattle bureau chief for the New York Times, lumbers occasionally, but his account of the reopened investigation generally resonates with regional color. Bamonte's investigation of the killing started as scholarly research, but stepped up when "a convergence of conscience and coincidence" suggested that the marshal had been shot by a cop protecting colleagues associated with the robberies. In a deathbed confession, a cop revealed that the Spokane police were involved in more than "a conspiracy of small corruptions." Egan evocatively resurrects the scenes and raw insensitivities of '30s police life in the region, from Mother's Place, the diner where cops plotted their heists, to the Hotel de Gink, where transients stayed.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Bamonte, Tony, -- 1942-
Case studies.
Conniff, George, -- -1935.
Murder -- Investigation -- Washington (State) -- Pend Oreille County -- Case studies.
Police corruption -- Washington (State) -- Pend Oreille County -- Case studies.
Police murders -- Washington (State) -- Pend Oreille County -- Case studies.
Ralstin, Clyde.
Case studies.
Conniff, George, -- -1935.
Murder -- Investigation -- Washington (State) -- Pend Oreille County -- Case studies.
Police corruption -- Washington (State) -- Pend Oreille County -- Case studies.
Police murders -- Washington (State) -- Pend Oreille County -- Case studies.
Ralstin, Clyde.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Egan, T. (1992). Breaking blue (First edition.). Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Egan, Timothy. 1992. Breaking Blue. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Egan, Timothy. Breaking Blue Knopf, 1992.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Egan, Timothy. Breaking Blue First edition., Knopf, 1992.
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