John Berendt
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English
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In charming, beautiful and wealthy old-South Savannah, Georgia, shots rang out in the Mercer Mansion in the early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? Reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, & yet it is a work of nonfiction. This book was the basis of a documentary on the Art and Entertainment Channel and a movie in 1997.
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English
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Years ago Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on the New York Times bestseller list. John Berendt’s inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46%. It is Berendt and only Berendt who can capture Venice–a city of masks, a city of riddles, where the narrow, meandering passageways...
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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From “A Scandal in Bohemia,” in which Sherlock Holmes is famously outwitted by a woman, the captivating Irene Adler, to “The Five Orange Pips,” in which the master detective is pitted against the Ku Klux Klan, to “The Final Problem,” in which Holmes and his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, face each other in a showdown at the Reichenbach Falls, the stories that appear in The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes...