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A in sociology from the university of georgia in 1959. Police chiefs, that isin an episodic fivedecade tale of three chiefs and many connected murders in one tiny georgia town. Stuart woods was born in manchester, georgia and graduated in 1959 from the university of georgia, with a bachelor of arts in sociology. Eight years after he began writing it, chiefs was published in march 1981.
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