Edgar Smithย was in solitary confinement awaiting his execution in the electric chair,ย sentenced to death for the first degree murder of a 15 year old girl by a jury that deliberated for less than three hours following his two week trial. In his jail cell he studied the law and read extensively. He became acquainted with […]
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Thoughts on a Murder Novel in Process
`A while back I published a post on reasons why a writer should consider finding a novel in their finished full length play, but I hadn’t actually gone down the road of creating a novel that way, at least until now. I’m currently in the process of creating a novel based on the […]
A Reasonable Doubt – Book Review – Murder
A Reasonable Doubt, by Edgar Smith was published in August 1970 by Coward-McCann. The reader cannot begin to read this book before understanding who the author is and the circumstances in which it was written. Edgar Smith was a convicted murderer of a fifteen year old girl in the New Jersey and sitting in solitary […]
Book Review of Mama’s Madness – Billy Ray Chitwood
Chitwood’s novel tells the story of Tamantha Preen, a fictional character based on a real person who terrorized her family in northern California.ย Tamantha had a real or imagined depraved upbringing, and she is hell bent to pass depravity on. She murders two daughters and seems determined to make it three if her daughter Tammie […]