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| Author | Sarah Weinman |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Edgar Smith |
| Publisher | Ecco Press |
Publication date | February 22, 2022 |
| Pages | 464 |
| ISBN | 978-0-06-289976-7 |
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free is a 2022 book by Sarah Weinman that examines the life of Edgar Smith. The book has three "positive" reviews and nine "rave" reviews, according to review aggregator Book Marks. [1]
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Sarah Weinman is a journalist, editor, and crime fiction authority from Brooklyn, New York. She has most recently written The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World about the kidnapping and captivity of 11-year-old Florence Sally Horner by a serial child molester, a crime believed to have inspired Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. The book received mostly positive reviews from NPR, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe.
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