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The ballad of Frankie Silver / Sharyn McCrumb.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 3161
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCrumb, Sharyn, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death row inmates--Fiction.
- Death row inmates.
- Sheriffs.
- Murder.
- Tennessee.
- Murder--Appalachian Trail--Fiction.
- Sheriffs--Tennessee--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 396 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Signet, 1999.
- Summary:
- Sheriff Spencer Arrowood receives an invitation to an execution for Fate Harkryder, a young man he helped convict twenty years earlier for the murder of two hikers, but the parallels between the Harkryder case and another murder that took place over one hundred years earlier, leads Spencer to question whether Harkryder is really guilty.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-396).
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- ISBN:
- 0451197399
- 9780451197399
- OCLC:
- 41266132
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