A wild surge of guilty passion
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ron Hansen
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781451617559; 9781451617566; 9781451617573
Subjects: Trials (Murder); Adultery; Women murderers; Crimes against; Fiction; Husbands; Nineteen twenties; Housewives
Description: A tale based on a true story from 1920s Manhattan follows the affair between voluptuous Ruth Snyder and undergarment salesman Judd Gray, whose plot to kill Ruth's husband triggers an explosive police investigation.