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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group - Furious hours | casey cep

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• The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a MockingbirdReverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s
• With the help of a savvy lawyer
• He escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim
• Despite hundreds of witnesses
• Maxwell’s murderer was acquitted – thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend
• As Alabama is consumed by these gripping events
• It’s not long until news of the case reaches Alabama’s – and America’s – most famous writer
• Intrigued by the story
• Harper Lee makes a journey back to her home state to witness the Reverend’s killer face trial
• Harper had the idea of writing her own In Cold Blood