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The Secret Lives of Sgt John Wilson - A True Story of Love & Murder - cover

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The Secret Lives of Sgt John Wilson - A True Story of Love & Murder

Lois Simmie

Editora: Greystone Books

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John Wilson came to Canada from Scotland in 1912, leaving his wife and family with the promise to return in a year. In 1914 he joined the Mounties, and while stationed in Saskatchewan village, he caught TB and fell hopelessly in love with the young woman who took care of him. He would do anything for her, anything at all.Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Non-Fiction, The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson is played out against a backdrop of catastrophic events—World War I, economic depression, the TB and Spanish Flu epidemics. It is a riveting story of passion, murder and retribution
Disponível desde: 31/12/2014.

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