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Title: Murder in Little Egypt

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 1988
Paperback, 1990
Audio Cassette, 1990

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        352 Pages
Weight:        0.9 Pounds
Height:         8.5 Inches
Width:          5.5 Inches
Thickness:    1 Inches



Publisher Notes
The unimaginable crime of filicide takes on the cast of tragic inevitability in this haunting true tale of violence, greed, revenge, and death. Fusing the narrative power of an award-winning novelist and the detailed research of an experienced investigator, Darcy O'Brien unfolds the story of Dr. John Dale Cavaness, the southern Illinois physician and surgeon who in December 1984 was charged with the murder of his son Sean. Outraged by the arrest of the skilled medical practitioner who selflessly attended to their needs, the people of Little Egypt rose to his defense. In the trial, however, a radically different, disquieting portrait of Dr. Cavaness would emerge. For throughout the three decades that he enjoyed the admiration and respect of his community, Cavaness was privately terrorizing his family, abusing his employees, and making disastrous financial investments as well as brawling and womanizing. What was not revealed in the trial, however, was that seven years earlier, in a homicide that had never been solved, the body of Cavaness's firstborn son, Mark, had been found shot dead in the woods of Little Egypt. In addition to a compelling chronicle that uncovers the truth behind two ghastly crimes and lays bare the Jekyll-Hyde psyche of their perpetrator, Murder in Little Egypt brings into stark midwestern light the hidden, gothic underside of an America bred on violence and bathed in blood. "Stunning material,"-Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney "A meticulous account ... an implicit indictment of a culture that condones and encourages violent behavior in men."-The New York Times Book Review



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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Murder in Little Egypt and it was written by Darcy O'Brien. This edition of Murder in Little Egypt is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is September 2002 and it has a suggested retail price of $14. There are 352 pages in the book and it was published by Running Pr Book Pub. The 10 digit ISBN is 0786710950 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780786710959. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.