Format:
Eaudiobook, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Sound Recording, Electronic Resources
Author:
Grann, David.
Title:
Killers of the flower moon [electronic resource] : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI / David Grann.
Edition:
Unabridged.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Books on Tape ; [Prince Frederick, Md.] : [Distributed by] OneClick Digital, 2017, p2017.
Description:
1 online resource (9 hr., 4 min.)
Summary:
From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances. In this last remnant of the Wild West-where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the "Phantom Terror," roamed-many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization's first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case. In desperation, the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. In Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of people were murdered in cold blood. Based on years of research and startling new evidence, the book is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister secrets and reversals. But more than that, it is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward American Indians that allowed the murderers to operate with impunity for so long. Killers of the Flower Moon is utterly compelling, but also emotionally devastating. From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects:
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Case studies.
Osage Indians -- Crimes against -- Case studies.
Murder -- Oklahoma -- Osage County -- Case studies.
Homicide investigation -- Oklahoma -- Osage County -- Case studies.
Downloadable audiobooks.
Osage County (Okla.) -- History -- 20th century.
Genre:
True crime stories.
Audiobooks.
Other Author:
Campbell, Danny.
Lee, Ann Marie.
Patton, Will.
Books on Tape, Inc.
Notes:
Downloadable audio file.
Title from title screen.
Access restricted to subscribing institutions.
Narrated by Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, and Danny Campbell.
Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Requires OneClick Digital Media Manager.
System requirements: 200 MB of free disk space, 512 MB of RAM, Windows Installer 3.1, Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (x86 and x64), Windows Media Player 10 QA.
Contents:
Chronicle one: the marked woman -- The vanishing -- An act of God or man? -- King of the Osage Hills -- Underground reservation -- The devil's disciples -- Million dollar elm -- This thing of darkness -- Chronicle two: the evidence man -- Department of easy virtue -- The undercover cowboys -- Eliminating the impossible -- The third man -- A wilderness of mirrors -- A hangman's son -- Dying words -- The hidden face -- For the betterment of the Bureau -- The quick-draw artist, the yegg, and the soup man -- The state of the game -- A traitor to his blood -- So help you God! -- The hot house -- Chronicle three: the reporter -- Ghostlands -- A case not closed -- Standing in two worlds -- The lost manuscript -- Blood cries out.
ISBN:
9780307747471
9780307747457
030774745X
Publisher or Distributor Number:
Z100118956
System Availability:
51
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
51
Control Number:
652949
Call Number:
Audio ebook
Course Reserves:
0
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Medium:
[electronic resource]