Bibliograph

The unquiet grave, a novel, Sharyn McCrumb

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Label

The unquiet grave, a novel, Sharyn McCrumb

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The unquiet grave

Oclc number

1132231139

Responsibility statement

Sharyn McCrumb

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"Sharyn McCrumb comes a finely wrought novel set in nineteenth-century West Virginia, based on the true story of one of the strangest murder trials in American history--the case of the Greenbrier Ghost. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930. Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P.D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical school, Dr. Boozer is eager to try the new talking cure for insanity, and encourages his elderly patient to reminisce about his experiences as the first black attorney to practice law in nineteenth-century West Virginia. Gardner's most memorable case was the one in which he helped to defend a white man on trial for the murder of his young bride--a case that the prosecution based on the testimony of a ghost."--, Provided by publisher

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