The devil amongst the lawyers
Subtitle: a ballad novel
By: Sharyn McCrumb.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780312558161
Subjects: Journalists -- Fiction; Trials (Murder) -- Fiction; Mountain life -- Virginia -- Fiction; Ballads -- Fiction; Appalachian Region -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction; Virginia, Southwest -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.