A Gentleman in Charleston and the Manner of His Death A Novel / William Baldwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baldwin, William P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McDow, Thomas B--Fiction.

Dawson, Sarah Morgan, 1842-1909--Fiction.

Dawson, Francis Warrington, 1840-1889--Fiction.

Murderers--Fiction.

Murderers.

Murder victims--Fiction.

Murder victims.

Journalists--Crimes against--Fiction.

Journalists.

Charleston (S.C.)--Fiction.

Charleston (S.C.).

Genre:

Biographical fiction.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Once deemed ""the most powerful man in the South,"" Charleston newspaper editor Frank Dawson met his violent death on March 12, 1889, at the hands of his neighbor, a disreputable doctor who was attempting to seduce the Dawson family governess. Drawn from events surrounding this infamous episode, the third novel from the Lillian Smith Award-winning William Baldwin pulls back the veil of a genteel society in a fabled southern city and exposes a dark visage of anger and secret pain that no amount of imposed manners could restrain, and only love might eventually heal.With a southern storyteller's

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""PREFACE""; ""AN INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CHAPTER THREE""; ""CHAPTER FOUR""; ""CHAPTER FIVE""; ""CHAPTER SIX""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT""; ""CHAPTER NINE""; ""CHAPTER TEN""; ""CHAPTER ELEVEN""; ""CHAPTER TWELVE""; ""CHAPTER THIRTEEN""; ""CHAPTER FOURTEEN""; ""CHAPTER FIFTEEN""; ""CHAPTER SIXTEEN""; ""CHAPTER SEVENTEEN""; ""CHAPTER EIGHTEEN""; ""CHAPTER NINETEEN""; ""CHAPTER TWENTY""; ""CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE""; ""AN AFTERWORD""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61117-558-5

OCLC:

890444803