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The Murder of Lottery Winner Abraham Shakespeare
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2017
Summary
The true story of the murder of lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, the story of an illiterate man who won millions in the Florida state lottery, only to become the target of a woman who deceived and murdered him.The true crime story of murdered Florida lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare.Poor man. Rich man. Dead man.It sounded like a fairy tale- A homeless man named Abraham Shakespeare spent his last dollars on a Florida State lottery ticket-and miraculously won $31 million.Unprepared for his new found fortune, Abraham hired Dorice “Dee Dee” Moore to help manage his winnings and field the numerous requests for loans and assistance that he received. But somehow, Dee Dee was the only one benefiting.When Abraham quietly disappeared from his home in Florida, friends and family grew suspicious-though he could not read or write, his only form of contact was through odd letters and texts.But it wasn’t until investigators began to question Dee Dee about her role in Abraham’s finances that a complicated web of lies-and the desperate lengths to which one woman would go to cover it up-was exposed…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780425274910 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0425274918 |
| Author: | Deborah Mathis, Gregory Todd Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2017 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 107mm x 191mm |
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Deborah Mathis
After working as a deadline reporter for twenty-seven years (including a seven-year stint as White House Correspondent during the Clinton years), veteran journalist and author Deborah Mathis studied under a Shorenstein Fellowship at Harvard, taught at Northwestern University’s prestigious Medill School of Journalism, was Communications Director at the Public Justice Foundation, wrote a weekly column for BlackAmericaWeb.com, and is the author of three books-Yet A Stranger- Why Black Americans Still Don’t Feel at Home, What God Can Do, and Sole Sisters- the Joys and Pains of Single Black Women.Gregory Todd Smith is a native of Polk County, Florida. A self-made man, he enjoys a thriving barber practice in Lakeland, Florida.
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