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Synopsis
Justice, as the old saying goes, must be seen to be done. Sometimes justice must be seen to be believed. That's the case in Bluenose Justice, a collection of true stories drawn from Nova Scotia's legal past. It's an eclectic mix of the slightly offbeat and the deadly serious, where a wise-cracking judge and a crafty embezzler rub shoulders with a shadowy executioner and cold-blooded murderers. Newspaper publisher Joseph Howe's stirring 1835 defence of freedom of the press is recounted here, along with the saga of the bookkeeper who nearly cleaned out the Bank of Nova Scotia in 1870 and the antics of rumrunner Jack Randell, whose run-in with the U.S. coast guard created an international incident in 1929 (Pottersfield Press, 1993, republished Lancelot Press, 1996).
Finalist for the City of Dartmouth Book Award
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"True crime, as readers know, isn't my favourite reading material .... So I was surprised to find myself enjoying Bluenose Justice .... Jobb manages to cover nearly three centuries of Nova Scotia crime with wit and style." - Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail
"Top-notch crime writing ... an example of how good historical writing can be."
- The Chronicle Herald
"Jobb ... has a keen sense of storytelling, combined with the kind of research skills required to dig out these gems of wrongdoing. Carefully crafted, they range from tales of opinionated, eccentric judges who would not last an hour in today's politically correct justice system to accounts of murder most foul." - Books in Canada
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- PublisherPottersfield Pr
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0919001785
- ISBN 13 9780919001787
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
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BLUENOSE JUSTICE. True Tales of Mischief, Mayhem and Murder
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Pottersfield Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0919001785
ISBN 13: 9780919001787
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Seller: Loretta Lay Books, London, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Softcover / Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Softcover. A collection of true stories drawn from Nova Scotia's legal past. It's an eclectic mix of the slightly offbeat and the deadly serious, where wise-cracking judges and crafty embezzlers rub shoulders with executioners and cold-blooded murderers. Glace Bay's A.B. MacGillivray dispensed more wit than wisdom from the bench. Angus Walters, skipper of the famous racing schooner 'Bluenose', gave the Americans a run for their money in and out of court. Jack Randell's defiant stand against the US Coast Guarcd sparked an international incident and almost cost the Lunenburg rumrunner his life. And James Forman, boss of one of Canada's oldest financial institutions, nearly broke the Bank of Nova Scotia with his creative accounting. The locale may be one province, but the rogue's gallery of characters inhabiting the pages of this book is sure to have wide appeal. Illus. 152pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. Seller Inventory # 14550
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