The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
In the misty hollows of rural Virginia in 1897, a shadowy figure with matrimonial ambitions beyond all social convention became the center of one of the most peculiar and chilling murder mysteries the American South had ever witnessed — a case that would ultimately demand the testimony of a ghost to reach its resolution. Katie Letcher Lyle's The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives chronicles the sensational true story of this unsolved killing, piecing together historical records, local legend, and supernatural lore to reconstruct a crime that captivated a community and defied conventional justice. Lyle writes with the precision of a historian and the narrative flair of a born storyteller, drawing readers into a world where the boundaries between the living and the dead were considered altogether more permeable than modern sensibility allows. The result is a masterfully researched work that sits at the crossroads of true crime, Appalachian folklore, and social history, casting an unflinching eye on gender, power, and morality in the post-Reconstruction South. What does it mean when only the dead can speak the truth — and will the living dare to listen?
Author: Katie Letcher Lyle
Format: Hardback
Published: 1986, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Genre: True crime
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
In the misty hollows of rural Virginia in 1897, a shadowy figure with matrimonial ambitions beyond all social convention became the center of one of the most peculiar and chilling murder mysteries the American South had ever witnessed — a case that would ultimately demand the testimony of a ghost to reach its resolution. Katie Letcher Lyle's The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives chronicles the sensational true story of this unsolved killing, piecing together historical records, local legend, and supernatural lore to reconstruct a crime that captivated a community and defied conventional justice. Lyle writes with the precision of a historian and the narrative flair of a born storyteller, drawing readers into a world where the boundaries between the living and the dead were considered altogether more permeable than modern sensibility allows. The result is a masterfully researched work that sits at the crossroads of true crime, Appalachian folklore, and social history, casting an unflinching eye on gender, power, and morality in the post-Reconstruction South. What does it mean when only the dead can speak the truth — and will the living dare to listen?