Summary
"Sharyn McCrumb comes a finely wrought novel set in nineteenth-century West Virginia, based on the true story of one of the strangest murder trials in American history--the case of the Greenbrier Ghost. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930. Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asyl... Full description
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Main Language
English
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English
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Subjects
Shue, Erasmus Stribbling, > 1861 or 1862-1900 > Fiction.
Shue, Zona Heaster, > -1897 > Fiction.
Murder > West Virginia > Greenbrier County > Fiction.
Criminal defense lawyers > Fiction.
African American lawyers > Fiction.
Practice of law > West Virginia > 19th century > Fiction.
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Historical fiction > West Virginia.
Biographical fiction > West Virginia.