Title: The devil amongst the lawyers
Subtitle: a ballad novel
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Trials (Murder), Journalists, Mountain life, Ballads, History, Legal stories, Historical fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, legal, Journalists, fiction, Appalachian mountains, fiction, Virginia, fiction
Places: Appalachian Region, Virginia, Southwest Virginia
Time periods: 20th century