Hanging Katherine Garret
Subtitle: a novel based on the 1737 trial of a Pequot woman
By: Abigail Davis.
Publisher: Heritage Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Bowie, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Garret, Katherine, d. 1738 -- Fiction.; Pequot Indians -- Fiction.; Murder -- Fiction.; Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In present-day Minneapolis a graduate student, Karla Palmer, discovers a sermon that was preached at the 1738 hanging of Katherine Garret, a Pequot Indian woman who was executed for the murder of her bastard child... She pled not guilty at her trial and records show that a huge courtroom scene ensued when the verdict was announced. Karla, smelling a cover-up, follows the obscured paper trail into the past"--from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-224).