The Good Doctor's Downfall - Couverture rigide

Capel, Wint

 
9780595670161: The Good Doctor's Downfall
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ISBN 10 : 0595670164 ISBN 13 : 9780595670161
Editeur : iUniverse, 2004

Synopsis

What really happened before, during and just after the sensational, Prohibition era murder of the police chief by the town's most admired physician has been saved from oblivion by this book by retired newspaper editor Wint Capel, The Good Doctor's Downfall. The author dug up the facts and has arranged them to show in great detail how brilliant Dr. J. W. Peacock ambushed the young, arrogant police chief, John Taylor, on a busy downtown street in Thomasville, a small North Carolina factory town. The doctor finished him off with a World War I souvenir, a German Luger. The doctor, also a city councilman, and the chief began feuding after the chief decided to crackdown on those, like the doctor, who ignored the laws against gambling and drinking. The feud became unbelievably bitter and explosive. By the time of the attack downtown, the doctor had been convinced, "It's either him or me." In a trial that featured the best legal minds in North Carolina, the doctor barely escaped the electric chair. Then, a year later, he escaped a prison for the criminally insane. He managed to outrun them all. Only a horrible accident in California could rob him of his freedom.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

What really happened before, during and just after the sensational, Prohibition era murder of the police chief by the town's most admired physician has been saved from oblivion by this book by retired newspaper editor Wint Capel, The Good Doctor's Downfall. The author dug up the facts and has arranged them to show in great detail how brilliant Dr. J. W. Peacock ambushed the young, arrogant police chief, John Taylor, on a busy downtown street in Thomasville, a small North Carolina factory town. The doctor finished him off with a World War I souvenir, a German Luger. The doctor, also a city councilman, and the chief began feuding after the chief decided to crackdown on those, like the doctor, who ignored the laws against gambling and drinking. The feud became unbelievably bitter and explosive. By the time of the attack downtown, the doctor had been convinced, "It's either him or me." In a trial that featured the best legal minds in North Carolina, the doctor barely escaped the electric chair. Then, a year later, he escaped a prison for the criminally insane. He managed to outrun them all. Only a horrible accident in California could rob him of his freedom.

Biographie de l'auteur

A native of Greensboro, N.C., Wint Capel, author of The Good Doctor?s Downfall, graduated in journalism from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He was the first editor of a Thomasville, N.C., daily newspaper. After 30 years he retired as the paper?s Editor Emeritus, and presently resides in a Raleigh, N.C., retirement community.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595670164
ISBN 13 
9780595670161
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Editeur : iUniverse, 2004
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