The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption by Patricia L. Bryan, Thomas Wolf

The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption

Patricia L. Bryan, Thomas Wolf

212 pages missing pub info (editions)

fiction history true crime challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
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"The Plea starts with a terrible crime. On a moonlit night in 1889, the Iowa farmer John Elkins, and his young wife, Hattie, are brutally attacked and murdered in their bed. Eight days later, their son, eleven-year-old Wesley Elkins, is arrested a...

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