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Title: Blood and Money (Tr) (Revised)

Author: Thomas Thompson

ISBN: 9780786709472

Publisher: Running Press

Published: 2001

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Reprint

Number of Pages: 512

Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Publisher : Power, passion, oil money, murder–all the ingredients of a fast-paced, gripping mystery novel drive this true-crime story that on its original publication leapt onto best-seller lists nationwide. To that mix, add glamorous personalities, prominent Texas businessmen, gangland reprobates, and a whole parade of medical experts. At once a documentary account of events and a novelistic reconstruction of encounters among the cast of colorful characters, this anatomy of murder first chronicles the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death in 1969 of Joan Robinson–the pampered daughter of a Texas oil millionaire and the wife of plastic surgeon Dr. John Hill–then examines the bizarre consequences that followed it. For in 1972, having been charged by his father-in-law with Joan’s death and having survived a mistrial, John Hill himself was killed, supposedly by a robber. So was the robber, by a cop, supposedly for resisting arrest. From the exclusive haunts of Houston’s super-rich to the city’s seamy underworld of prostitutes, pimps, and punks, author and investigative journalist Thomas Thompson tracks down all the leads and clues. And in a brutal tale of blood and money he uncovers some shocking and bitter truths.