The Killers: A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia by George Lippard

The Killers: A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia

George Lippard

256 pages missing pub info (editions)

fiction literary dark medium-paced

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PHILADELPHIA, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute son, who then reappears as a hardened smuggler in the contraband slave trade. Another son, hidden from his father since birth and condemned as a former felon, falls in with a ferociou...

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