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Killers of the flower moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI : adapted for young readers
—Grann, David, author.
2022

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"In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, thanks to the oil that was discovered beneath their land. Then, one by one, the Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances, and anyone who tried to investigate met the same end. As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created Bureau of Investigation, which became the FBI, took up the case, one of the organization's first major homicide investigations. An undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau, infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection. Working with the Osage, they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. " --Publisher.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9780593377376 (trade paperback)
  • 9780593377376
  • 9780593377352
  • 9780593377345

Edition: First edition.

Description: xi, 322 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm

Target Audience Note: Interest grade level: 7-9.

Other Title: Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

Notes:

  • "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2017"--Title page verso.
  • Includes A Note About Language Use (copyright page).
  • Includes glossary.
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and index.

Contents:

  • Foreword by Dennis McAuliffe Jr.
  • The marked woman
  • The evidence man
  • The reporter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Who's who
  • Glossary
  • A note on the sources
  • Archival and unpublished sources
  • Notes and selected bibliography.

LCCN: 2021022997

Control Number: 3100047

Publisher: New York : Yearling Books, of Random House Children's Books, 2022.
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