{"product_id":"springtime-for-sophie-murder-and-madness-in-a-connecticut-mill-town-9781945049002","title":"Springtime for Sophie: Murder and Madness in a Connecticut Mill Town","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard H. Underwood\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Shadelandhouse Modern Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Shadelandhouse Modern Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Murder - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The year was 1909, the setting a decaying New England mill town. A saloonkeeper was left for dead, shot a dozen times, his throat slashed for good measure, yet still babbling that a winsome music teacher and her young beau, the victim's rival in love, had done the deed. The two murder trials that followed drew curious hordes and the attention of a nation. With meticulous archival work and rare narrative gifts, Professor Richard Underwood unearths this lost tale of death, duplicity, and personal ruin. In retelling a grisly true-life crime story, Underwood delivers a rich ethnography of Naugatuck, Connecticut, and a law school seminar on evidence, criminal procedure, trial strategy, and lawyers' ethics. It is a lesson too in the gnawing uncertainty of true-life crime stories, where some witnesses lie and others honestly forget, and crafty lawyers win fame by torturing the truth into submission to their designs.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46318906245271,"sku":"9781945049002","price":1664.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781945049002.webp?v=1768682421","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/springtime-for-sophie-murder-and-madness-in-a-connecticut-mill-town-9781945049002","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}