Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee Casey CEP Book
In good preowned condition. A mark on the fore-edge of the book. Please see picPaperback BookNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This superbly written true-crime story” (The recent York Times Book Review) masterfully brings together the tales of a serial killer in 1970s Alabama and of Harper Lee, the beloved author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who tried to write his story.Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members, but with the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative assassinated him at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell’s murderer was acquittedthanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the reverend himself. Sitting in the audience during the vigilante’s trial was Harper Lee, who spent a year in town reporting on the Maxwell case and many more trying to finish the book she called The Reverend.0.12