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

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

"A triumph on every level . . . Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce fidelity to the truth." --David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon

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 years working on her own version of the case.

Now Casey Cep brings this 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.
Country USA
Author Casey Cep
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9781101947876
Format Kindle eBook
Label Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
NumberOfPages 308
PublicationDate 2019-05-07
Publisher Knopf
ReleaseDate 2019-05-07
Studio Knopf

Country	USA
Author	Casey Cep
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781101947876
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
NumberOfPages	308
PublicationDate	2019-05-07
Publisher	Knopf
ReleaseDate	2019-05-07
Studio	Knopf

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

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