Simon & Schuster
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Описание:
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 on their land, the Osage rode around in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. Her older sister was shot, her mother slowly poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances and virtually anyone who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. When the FBI took up the case, under its young director J. Edgar Hoover, they began to expose one of the most sinister conspiracies in American history.