Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, money, murder and the birth of the FBI

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0857209027

Hardback Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, money, murder and the birth of the FBI

Author: Grann, David

Publication year: 2017

Language: English

Media Hardback

Classification: 976.6

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2017

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 0857209027 9780857209023

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A fiercely entertaining mystery story and a wrenching exploration of evil' Kate Atkinson From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z , soon to be a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the newly-created FBI's first major homicide investigations. 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 this was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case