About this title: When he is asked to witness the execution of a young man found guilty of a double murder, Tennessee Sheriff Spencer Arrowood is reminded of a convicted murderer hanged in 1833. But like the long-ago trial and hanging of Frankie Silver, this new case seems far less clear-cut than the judge and jury believe it to be. Will Sheriff Arrowood witness another unjust execution, or is the young man on death row guilty as charged? A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton Books
Date Published: 05/1998
ISBN-13:9780525939696ISBN:0525939695
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 386 p. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton Books
Date Published: 05/1998
ISBN-13:9780525939696ISBN:0525939695
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 386 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton Books
Date Published: 05/1998
ISBN-13:9780525939696ISBN:0525939695
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 386 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton Books
Date Published: 05/1998
ISBN-13:9780525939696ISBN:0525939695
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 386 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton Books
Date Published: 05/1998
ISBN-13:9780525939696ISBN:0525939695
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 386 p. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780451197399ISBN:0451197399
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge and corner wear. Very light soiling on sides of book. Tight, square book. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 396 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780451197399ISBN:0451197399
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Slight edgewear. Pages unmarked, bright and tight. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 396 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. CT-Spine is well creased. Covers show wear a the edges and corners. Average Reading copy. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. 0451197399 cover is different than shown. Good condition paperback book, some creases to spine, some edge and corner rubs, this book is Good! Shop & Save With US. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet Books, New York, NY
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780451197399ISBN:0451197399
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 6 3/4" X 4 1/4" May 1999 1st paperback print. Very Good Cond. Spine lightly creased. Front, instep and back cover edges lightly frayed. No store stamps. Ink inscriptions on inside instep page and first page, describing the book to be a true story of North Carolina and the date the reader read book. Light handling and shelf wear. Setting: In 1833 Frankie Silver became the first woman in North Carolina to be hanged for murder. But what really happened so long ago becomes an ... read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780451197399ISBN:0451197399
Description: Very Good. 0451197399 Mass Market Paperback, previously read used book in very good condition, may have slight worn corners and some shelf wea..._ read more
"This is the story of the first woman hanged for murder in Tennessee, in the early 1800's. For current interest, the story of Frankie is made to parallel two 20th century murders, each of which involved Detective Arrowood's work on solving the crimes. I didn't like this as much as the other two I've read, partly because of the detailed accounts of Frankie's hanging and the 20th century murderer's electrocution."
"This was a second read on this. I'm enamored of all these mountain ballads and I like Sharyn McCrumb's characters. I really like her take on what happened to prompt the Silver murder and its aftermath. But she is sort of clumsy at segues between fiction and the researched material she includes. (It's worse in some of her other books.) People start relaying information in a way that no one actually talks, or include a bunch of information that clearly came from historical records but isn't relevant to the story."
"This book was better than I thought it would be. McCrumb does an excellent job making the past relevant to the present. I was also surprised by the way she ended it...the good guys don't always win and justice is not always served."
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