Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
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Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
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- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Title remainder
- murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- Statement of responsibility
- Casey Cep
- Subject
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- trueAlabama -- History -- 20th century
- trueCreativity in women
- Lee, Harper
- Maxwell, Willie
- Murder -- Investigation -- Alabama
- trueRace relations
- trueRural crimes
- trueRural life
- trueSerial murderers
- Serial murders -- Alabama
- trueTrials (Murder)
- trueTrials (Murder) -- Alabama
- True crime stories
- trueWomen true crime writers
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted -- thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend. Sitting in the audience during the vigilante's trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from New York City to her native Alabama with the idea of writing her own In Cold Blood, the true-crime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote research seventeen years earlier. Lee spent a year in town reporting, and many more working on her own version of the case. Now Casey Cep brings this nearly inconceivable story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South. At the same time, she offers a deeply moving portrait of one of the country's most beloved writers and her struggle with fame, success, and the mystery of artistic creativity."--
- Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted-- thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend. Sitting in the audience during the vigilante's trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from New York City to her native Alabama with the idea of writing her own true-crime classic. Cep brings this nearly inconceivable story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South. -- adapted from jacket
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2019
- Assigning source
- Dust jacket
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 364.152/32092
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV6533.A2
- LC item number
- C47 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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