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Courting disaster : true crime and mischief on land and sea

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  • Publisher:
    Flanker Press, 2009
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Parsons, Robert C.
    Date:
    Created
    2009
    Summary:

    This is a collection of true Newfoundland and Labrador stories about crime and punishment on land and sea. Included here are tales of murder, mutiny, and smuggling on the high seas, as well as riots, assaults, and frauds perpetrated in some of the strangest criminal cases this province has ever seen.

    Genre:
    Canadian nonfiction, True crime stories
    Subject(s): Seafaring life | Newfoundland and Labrador | Crime
    Original Publisher: St. John's, Flanker Press
    Language(s): English