Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation by Bruce Dorsey ISBN 9780197633090, 0197633099 instant download

Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation by Bruce Dorsey ISBN 9780197633090, 0197633099 instant download

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 charged violence, adultery, the hypocrisy of a church leader, secrecy and mystery, and suspicions of insanity. Murder in a Mill Town tells the story of how a local crime quickly turned into a national scandal that became America's first "trial of the century." After her death—after she became the country's most notorious "factory girl"—Cornell's choices about work, survival, and personal freedom became enmeshed in stories that Americans told themselves about...