Title: The face of fear
Description: "The Face Of Fear is an absorbing novel of present-day" (1950s) "Southern life. Martha Poindexter, a sharp-tongued newspaper woman, is its heroine. For many varied reasons, Sadie Eaton was disliked, even hated, by some of her fellow citizens. But when she is done to death and the murderer is not found immediatley, the actions and reactions of Eatonville's people are various and violent, pinioned as they all are with fear."  Taken from then dust jact flaps of the first edition.
Subjects: Women journalists, Fiction, Social life and customs
Places: Eatonville Mississippi
Time periods: mid 1950s