A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow by Mike Farris

A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow

Mike Farris

332 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime dark slow-paced
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Lies, murder, and a legendary courtroom battle threaten to tear apart the Territory of Hawaii.In September of 1931, Thalia Massie, a young naval lieutenant’s wife, claims to have been raped by five Hawaiian men in Honolulu. Following a hung jury i...

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