The Big Red Fox: The Incredible Story of Norman "Red" Ryan, Canada's Most Notorious Criminal
de Peter McSherry
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1550023241
- ISBN 13
- 9781550023244
- Librería
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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First edition, first printing.
216 p.; ill. Very minor shelf wear, and a small initial in pen to upper corner of half-title, otherwise Fine.
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Norman "Red" Ryan was a notorious bank robber, safecracker, and killer. He escaped from Kingston Penitentiary twice—first by force, and then years later by gulling the credulous into believing that he was "reformed." Ryan's second emancipation included the prison's Roman Catholic chaplain, several nationally prominent citizens, the country's largest newspaper, and, ultimately, R. B. Bennett, the prime minister of Canada, who made the mistake of arranging a "political parole" for Ryan.
Six people—three of them innocent victims—died as a result of Red Ryan's freedom. Dubbed "the Jesse James of Canada" and "Canada's most notorious criminal," Ryan had compiled a record of nineteen convictions for crimes of theft and violence, and had been in nine shooting affrays with police and citizens. He was a "lifer" in an arrow when "life" meant just that. Yet he got out of Kingston after just eleven and a half years and return to Toronto, the city of his birth, amid fanfare befitting a national hero. His death in a liquor store robbery in Sarnia on May 23, 1936, just ten months after his release, was a huge jolt to Canada, and especially Toronto.
How could such an obvious threat to society be paroled from prison as a paragon of reform? This question is central to The Big Red Fox. The answer lies not with Ryan himself—not even the cunning and deceitful Red Ryan could have hoodwinked his way out of a life sentence—but with those who helped him, and who benefited from his release.
Peter McSherry's checkered career has equipped him with an extraordinary insight into the street, crime, and criminals. He has been a high school teacher, a truck driver, a taxi driver, and a freelance writer. The Big Red Fox is the product of McSherry's many years of research and his lifetime of interest in Norman "Red" Ryan.
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- Librería
- The Mortuary Korps (CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 000030
- Título
- The Big Red Fox
- Autor
- Peter McSherry
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, first printing.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1550023241
- ISBN 13
- 9781550023244
- Editorial
- Dundurn
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999-09
- Palabras clave
- Jesse James of Canada; theives; Biography; Big Red Fox; criminal; killer; bank robber; Canadian; true crime; law; justice system; prisoners; Kingston, Ontario
- Catálogos del vendedor
- True Crime; Biography / Autobiography; Politics, Government, & Law;
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