Research Catalog
This mortal boy
- Title
- This mortal boy / Fiona Kidman.
- Author
- Kidman, Fiona, 1940-
- Publication
- London : Gallic Books, 2019.
- ©2018
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-2128 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 288 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- Albert Black, known as the "jukebox killer", was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral panic about teenagers, and he was to hang less than five months later, the second-to-last person to be executed in New Zealand. But what really happened? Was this a love crime, was it a sign of juvenile delinquency? Or was this dark episode in our recent history more about our society's reaction to outsiders. Black's last words, as the hangman covered his head, were "I wish you all a merry Christmas, gentlemen, and a prosperous New Year."
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Note
- Reading group guide (page 288)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-2128
- ISBN
- 9781910709580
- 1910709581
- OCLC
- 1082541495
- Author
- Kidman, Fiona, 1940- author.
- Title
- This mortal boy / Fiona Kidman.
- Publisher
- London : Gallic Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-2128