num_pages: 400
description: Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case.
language: English
title: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
titlecomplete: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
characters: Danny Hansford, Conrad Aiken, Jim Williams, Lucille Wright, Mandy Nichols, William Simon Glover, Serena Vaughn Dawes, Johnny Mercer, Chablis, Minerva, Emma Kelly, Spencer Lawton Jr., Mary Harty, Luther Driggers, Joe Odom, Lee Adler, Sonny Seiler
genres: Audiobook, Southern, Travel, Crime, Classics, Mystery, Nonfiction, True Crime, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 263315
places: Savannah, Georgia
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Exclusive Books Boeke Prize, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Ferro-Grumley Award
category: Gay Fiction (Non-Fiction), awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Mystery
publisher: Random House Inc