From the inside cover:
The King v. Picariello and Lassandro is a visual narrative of the real-life story of Filumena "Florence" Lassandro and Emilio Picariello, Italian immigrants who were hanged in 1923 for the murder of an Alberta Provincial Police officer.  Composed of drawings based on a variety of sources - archival photographs, family albums, newspaper reports, the capital case files, film stills - the book weaves fact, fiction, cultural sterotypes and popular beliefs to construct a revealing history that probes the complex social circumstances and regional and national politics during the Prohibition era that lead to the quick and decisive conviction of these two "foreigners."