Title: The glass village, a novel.
Authors: Queen, Ellery
Publisher: Little, Brown
Year: 1954
Subjects: Trials (Murder) New England Fiction.; Older women Crimes against Fiction.; Women artists Crimes against Fiction.; Villages New England Fiction.; New England Fiction.
Abstract: New England naturalist painter Aunt Fanny Adams had only begun painting in her eighties, but sales of her work supported the Shinn Corners village school, the local church, and most of the other village institutions. When she is found murdered, the village people focus their rage on a wandering tramp. Only quick thinking by Judge Shinn and houseguest, Major Johnny Shinn, prevents a planned lynching. Judge Shinn sets up a trial by jury involving all the residents of the small village.