Who killed Captain Littleton Condiff? The wife who slept by his side? A robber seeking the small fortune under his mattress? A son desperate to escape the drudgery of his father’s life as an oysterman? His apparently harmless mother-in-law? Perhaps a conspiracy of his wife, her mother, their son? Into this tale of murder at the turn of the 20th century is woven the tale of the imprisonment and trial of Littleton’s wife, Bessie; the history of his Chesapeake Bay fishing village, Solomons Island; the harsh life of a waterman; and the texture of daily life in turn-of-the century Maryland.
Tabella dei contenuti
Prologue……………………………………………………… ix
1 An Ominous Forecast……………………………………..1
2 Mysterious Shooting at Solomon’s Island……………7
3 Coroner’s Inquest…………………………………………22
4. A Dark Portrait…………………………………………….36
5. A History of Lynchings………………………………….43
6. Under Arrest……………………………………………….52
7. Baltimore City Jail………………………………………..58
8. His Darling Clementine: the Reckard Murder…….68
9. The Grand Jury……………………………………………79
10. Critical Decision…………………………………………..84
11. Her Life at Stake…………………………………………..90
12. The Defense Fights Back……………………………..102
13. The Verdict………………………………………………..116
14. Farewell to Solomon’s………………………………….123
Epilogue……………………………………………………131
Notes………………………………………………………..
Circa l’autore
Carol. Booker is a graduate of the City University of New York and Georgetown University Law Center. As a journalist, Booker’s beat ran from civil rights to the Nigerian civil war. She worked as a writer/editor/reporter for the Voice of America, and freelanced in Africa for Westinghouse (Group W) Broadcasting, covering the Nigerian Civil War and other stories in ten African nations. Her articles and/or photography have also been published in The Washington Post, and Ebony and Jet magazines. After graduation from Georgetown University law school, she became legal counsel to public and international broadcasting entities, the environmental giant Greenpeace, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She is a (retired) Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia, the State of Maryland, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
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