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The speed queenStewart O'Nan

The speed queen

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Marjorie Standiford sits on Oklahoma's death row, hours away from execution, speaking into a tape recorder, telling her life story. She's answering questions about how she became the Speed Queen, one of the Sonic Killers - how mainlining speed with her husband, Lamont, and her lover, Natalie, grew into dealing, how dealing grew into robbery, and robbery into mass murder. She's telling her story because she wants to set the record straight, to correct the lies in Natalie's book, which became a bestseller.

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Editions

5 editions · 3 languages
  • Other · English · 2001
    Grove Press · 212 pages · 9780802138538
  • Other · English · 1997
    Doubleday · 212 pages · 9780385487016
  • Paperback · Spanish · 2001
    A Toda Pastilla
    Galaxia Gutenberg · 259 pages · 9788481092967
  • Hardcover · German · 1998
    Die Speed Queen.
    Rowohlt, Reinbek · 253 pages · 9783498050269
  • Other · German · 1999
    Die Speed Queen
    Rowohlt · 253 pages · 9783499226403
Death row inmatesFictionAmphetaminesWomen prisonersFiction, psychologicalFiction, humorousOklahoma, fictionCrime, fiction