In 1952, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Live Oak, Florida, to cover the trial of a black woman accused of murdering the town's only doctor, a white man. Drawing on Hurston's newspaper coverage, Ellis recounts the sensational trial.
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In 1952, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Live Oak, Florida, to cover the trial of a black woman accused of murdering the town's only doctor, a white man. Drawing on Hurston's newspaper coverage, Ellis recounts the sensational trial.
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This book has it all: rape, drugs, illicit money, and Southern justice in the Jim Crow South. Add the Zora Neale Hurston touch and a sprinkling of Southern fried denial of the facts, and you have the makings of a great true crime mystery.