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The Bellamy trial, Frances Noyes Hart ; introduction by Hank Phillipi Ryan

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The Bellamy trial

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Frances Noyes Hart ; introduction by Hank Phillipi Ryan

American mystery classics

The trial of Stephen Bellamy and Susan Ives, accused of murdering Bellamy's wife Madeline, lasts eight days. A trial that seems straightforward at its outset grows increasingly confounding as it proceeds, and surprises abound; by the time the closing arguments are made, however, the reader, like the jury, has all the evidence needed to pass judgement on the two defendants --, adapted from dust jacket