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Blonde rattlesnake : Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 crime spree that terrorized Los Angeles

Title
Blonde rattlesnake : Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 crime spree that terrorized Los Angeles / Julia Bricklin.
Author
Bricklin, Julia, 1970-
Publication
Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, 2019.

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Alternative Title
Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 crime spree that terrorized Los Angeles
Subject
  • Adams White, Burmah Arline
  • White, Thomas N
  • Robbery
  • Crime > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
But is it love? -- Short romance, quick death -- Pretrial -- Pop culture -- Trial, Part I -- Trial, Part II -- Trial, Part III -- Tehachapi -- The malignancy of this thing -- Vanished from public view.
Call Number
JFE 19-7375
ISBN
  • 9781493037896
  • 1493037897
LCCN
2019016788
OCLC
1023069848
Author
Bricklin, Julia, 1970- author.
Title
Blonde rattlesnake : Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 crime spree that terrorized Los Angeles / Julia Bricklin.
Publisher
Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, 2019.
Description
xv, 170 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
Nineteen-year-old Burmah Adams, a hairdresser and former Santa Ana High School student, spent her honeymoon on a crime spree. She and her husband of less than one week, White, an ex-con, robbed at least twenty people in and around downtown L.A. at gunpoint over an eight-week period. Blonde Rattlesnake reveals the events that brought Adams and White together and details the crime spree they committed in the sweltering hot days and nights of Los Angeles in the height of the Great Depression.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Research Call Number
JFE 19-7375
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