Deer Creek Drive by Beverly Lowry (Hardback Book)

Alfred A. Knopf

The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author\u2019s life and perception of home.\n\u201CMix together a bloody murder in a privileged white family, a false accusation against a Black man, a suspicious town, a sensational trial with colorful lawyers, and a punishment that didn\u2019t fit the crime, and you have the best of southern gothic fiction. But the very best part is that the story is true.\u201D \u2014John Grisham\nIn 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left facedown in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn\u2019t recognize had fled the\n\nDeer Creek Drive\nA Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delive;