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Christchurch Crimes
TRUE CRIME
232 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $25.95 (US $25.95) (CA $26.95)
Publication Date: April 2013
ISBN 9781927145395
Rights: WOR X AU, NZ & PAC
Canterbury University Press (Apr 2013)
Filled with real-life characters, this book combines archival and newspaper sources in a highly readable narrative about humorous crimes and criminals. As it describes a wide variety of colonial crimes and their courtroom sequels, these true-life narratives contain a mixture of transient folk and locals who claim they only broke the law due to drunkenness. With no particular agenda, this is an amusing look at the harsh realities of wrongdoings in an era where the punishment did not always fit the crime.
Geoffrey W. Rice is a retired history professor from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society of London. He is the author of several books, including All Fall Down: Christchurchs's Lost Chimneys, Black November, and Christchurch Changing: An Illustrated History.
