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  1. Aug 8, 2018 · It didn’t take long for the police to track down the two likeliest suspects: 20-year-old James McDermott and 16-year-old Grace Marks, both Irish-born servants in the Kinnear household who had vanished in the wake of the crimes, taking a bundle of stolen goods with them. Both the brutality of the crime and its undercurrent of sex turned the ...

  2. Alias Grace, the new CBC and Netflix miniseries inspired by Margaret Atwood's 1996 novel of the same name, is based on a true story.But like most things "based on a true story," elements of the ...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alias_GraceAlias Grace - Wikipedia

    35936659. Alias Grace is a historical fiction novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. First published in 1996 by McClelland & Stewart, it won the Canadian Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize . The story fictionalizes the notorious 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery in Canada West.

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  5. Oct 23, 2023 · Alias Grace,’ created by Sarah Polley and Mary Harron, is an adaptation of the 1996 eponymous novel by revered Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Furthermore, the real-life case of Grace Marks inspired Atwood’s book itself. Consequently, the Netflix mystery drama ends up having firm roots in both Atwood’s literature and a true-crime story.

  6. Nov 3, 2017 · Alias Grace is based on a true story — but the reality behind the fiction gets complicated. The series, and the original 1996 novel that inspired it, follows doctor Simon Jordan as he sits down ...

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  7. Nov 3, 2017 · Alias Grace is historical fiction, based on true events but with an Atwood twist or two to keep the story interesting. Enter: Dr. Simon Jordan, a fictional doctor and budding psychologist who ...

  8. Nov 7, 2017 · Alias Grace is, on the surface, a true-crime drama. Atwood based it on the real life of a poor, disenfranchised, long-suffering Irish-Canadian immigrant and maid who was found guilty of murder in ...

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