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a novel · · 224 pages

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

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In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. Their friends Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed - neither told the police. For this failing …

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In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. Their friends Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed - neither told the police. For this failing they were arrested. This book presents a fictionalized account of the summer of the killing.

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"In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. Their friends Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them …"

— Margaret

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