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Hands Through Stone: How Clarence Ray Allen Masterminded Murder from Behind Folsom's Prison Walls
Author(s): James A Ardaiz (Author)
- Publisher: Linden Publishing (US)
- Publication Date: 28 Nov. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 350 pages
- ISBN-10: 1610351290
- ISBN-13: 9781610351294
Book Description
This fascinating and gripping portrayal is the only book-length account ever written about the illicit career of Clarence Ray Allen, one of the most sinister criminal masterminds and mass murderers in American history. Even hardened detectives were shaken by the scene at Fran’s Market in rural Fresno County that night in 1980: four young people lay on the market’s concrete floor, bloodily murdered by a killer without mercy or remorse. Then a grim investigation became even grimmer when the evidence led to the prime suspect — a convicted murderer already behind the stone walls of Folsom. A true crime story that reads like an intricately woven mystery, the book depicts the chilling scenes of murder, a dogged investigation, and the true story behind the Fran’s Market murders and their psychopathic mastermind. Written by former prosecutor James Ardaiz, who was one of the first investigators on the scene at Fran’s Market, “”Hands Through Stone”” provides an insider’s view of the tortuous, multiyear investigation that brought a killer to justice.
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About the Author
James A. Ardaiz is a former prosecutor, judge, and Presiding Justice of the California Fifth District Court of Appeal. His previous books include the true crime account Hands Through Stone and the mystery novels Fractured Justice and Shades of Truth. Ardaiz wrote Tears of Honor after five years of historical research, including interviews with Colonel Young Oak Kim. Ardaizs website is jamesardaiz.com.
