Darcy O'Brien, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (339p) ISBN 978-0-06-017958-8
In his account of a 10-year crime spree in Eastern Kentucky, University of Tulsa English professor O'Brien ( Murder in Little Egypt ) focuses on chronic criminal Benny Hodge and his wife Sherry, who met when she was a guard in Brushy Mountain State...
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Darcy O'Brien, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (18p) ISBN 978-0-06-017959-5
In this well-reported but overstuffed true-crime tale, O'Brien (A Dark and Bloody Ground) tells of Dyer County, Tennessee, judge David Lanier, a local potentate who sexually abused and harassed female court employees for years. Using interviews with
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Darcy O'Brien, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-07137-0
The southern triangle of Illinois has been known as Egypt or Little Egypt since 1832, when northern Illinoisans journeyed there to buy corn after a difficult winter. In this riveting historical true-crime acount, we read about John Dale Cavaness,...
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Darcy O'Brien, Author William Morrow & Company $20.95 (297p) ISBN 978-0-688-09169-9
A well-written, solid novel of character and situation, O'Brien's newest book (after the nonfiction Murder in Little Egypt ) presents an authentic picture of vaudeville, the theater and the movie industry in the 1900s. The protagonist is based on...
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Darcy O'Brien, Author Onyx Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-451-40167-0
In what PW called a ``riveting true-crime account,'' we read about John Dale Cavaness, a native son who practiced medicine in ``Little Egypt,'' the southern triangle of Illinois. For a time one of the most beloved men in the area, Cavaness led a...
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Darcy O'Brien, Author Rodale Press $25 (350p) ISBN 978-0-87596-478-2
The lifelong friendship of two men, one the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, the other a virtually unknown Polish engineer, makes for a remarkable saga in the expert hands of O'Brien (winner of the 1997 Edgar for Best Fact Crime book for Power...
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