Title: Cold morning
Description: "January 3, 1935. The trial opens in Flemington, New Jersey, for the man accused of the crime of the century. And Edna Ferber is there to cover it. 1932. On a windy March 1 night, Charles Lindbergh, America's hero, discovers that his twenty-month-old son has been snatched from his crib. A ransom is arranged. Yet two months later, Little Lindy is found in a ditch near his Hopewell home, several weeks dead from a blow to the head. It takes over two years to arrest a suspect. Bruno Richard Hauptmann is caught passing one of the marked ransom bills...Did this immigrant carpenter really commit the crime? Alone? Observant sometime-sleuth Edna is not so sure."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Trials (Kidnapping), Kidnapping, Trials (Murder), Investigation, Kidnapping, 1932, Murder, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: New Jersey, Hopewell
People: Bruno Richard Hauptmann (1899-1936), Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1930-1932), Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974), Edna Ferber (1887-1968)