Who Killed Ty Conn
by Linden MacIntyre, Theresa Burke

ISBN: 1-897174-74-8 ISBN 13: 978-1-897174-74-6 Format: 5.5" x 8.5" paper # of pages: 300 pages Published: (c) 2011 Price: CDN$19.95 Qty:

Book Description Who Killed Ty Conn is the brilliant investigative work of Linden MacIntyre and Theresa Burke, the current host and producer respectively of the CBC’s the fifth estate. It tells the tragic story of Ty Conn’s life of crime and misfortune. Originally published by Viking Canada in 2000, the book has been updated and reissued with a new afterword from the author and a new foreword by author and criminologist Elliott Leyton. A classic in the literature of true crime, Who Killed Ty Conn portrays a man coming to terms with a life of rejection – and the social system that failed to save him. About the Authors "The most important story I have ever told." Linden MacIntyre Linden MacIntyre is the author of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel The Bishop’s Man. He is also the author of the bestselling novel The Long Stretch, and a childhood memoir, Causeway, for which he won The Evelyn Richardson Prize and The Edna Staebler Award for Non-Fiction. When not writing, he is the host of Canada’s best-known investigative television show, CBC’s the fifth estate. Theresa Burke began her journalism career in 1994 when she was hired as a researcher for the CBC's the fifth estate. She went on to become a producer of this award-winning television show. Burke won a Canadian Association of Journalists award in 2000 for a documentary on Steven Truscott entitled "His Word Against History."