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Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation

By Bruce Dorsey
Hardcover
$35.99
By Bruce Dorsey
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A media circus long before the age of media circuses, this is a gripping narrative that brings you into the drama of the courtroom centered on a church sex scandal. With vigilante justice and celebrity sightings, it's a story you won't believe isn't fiction.

A master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America's first "crime of the century"—from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial—and its aftermath.

In December 1832 a farmer found the body of a young, pregnant woman hanging near a haystack outside a New England mill town. When news spread that Methodist preacher Ephraim Avery was accused of murdering Sarah Maria Cornell, a factory worker, the case gave the public everything they found irresistible: sexually charg...

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