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The fortune men /

"Based on a true event, The Fortune Men tells the intimate, harrowing story of the last man in Britain to be sentenced to death. In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mohamed, Nadifa, 1981- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Life change events > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Racism > Wales > Fiction.
Judicial error > Great Britain > Fiction.
Tiger Bay (Cardiff, Wales) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
FICTION / Historical / General.
FICTION / Thrillers / Historical.
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery.
Racism.
Judicial error.
Life change events.
Murder > Investigation.
Wales.
Great Britain.
Wales > Cardiff > Tiger Bay.
1900-1999
Historical fiction.
Legal fiction (Literature)
Fiction.
History.

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