دانلود کتاب The Unwritten Law: A True Crime of Passion

Pearl, a stunning flapper in the Roaring Twenties, has danced for Rudolph Valentino, and enjoys the company of any man she chooses--until she decides to carry on an affair with Morgan, a married rural man with two children. Morgan's wife, Ina, disguised in borrowed clothing, guns Pearl down when she finds her on a midnight train with her arms around Morgan. The next day, Pearl's body is placed on public display for a town of strangers, and her killer is applauded in the streets by hundreds of country women. A "dream team" of defense attorneys is hired, and the stage is set for a sensational jazz age clash between two distinct views of a woman's role in modern society--that of the "virtuous" rural mother dressed in gingham and the "scarlet woman" from the city who would deny a mother and her babies the necessities of life. Should death ever be the price for adultery? That is the question the jury--and readers--are faced with in THE UNWRITTEN LAW. Gripping, thought-provoking, and engaging--the reader of The Unwritten Law becomes a participant in one of the most morally divisive murder trials in American history!  
Review
The court scenes are similar to those depicted in the movies Inherit the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird. The author's work and research are definitely worthy of becoming a movie script.by Lynnae Price

This is really a must read. I was unable to put it down. Finished the book in two days. It grabbed my attention from the first chapter.

By ErnestineIf you read only one book this summer, I suggest this one! It is very well written and I can envision a movie!by Connie
 

From the Author
My research and writing of this book had its origins in reviewing microfilm photocopies for a student's college English research paper.  To insure that my English 102 students understood how to use direct quotes and paraphrases, I required them to include photocopies of their cited materials. This particular student's paper was on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago. On the same front page was the news about the opening day of the murder trial which I have described in my book.   The more I read about the case, the more obsessed I became with learning all the details that led up to Pearl's murder on the train, and to the eventual verdict handed down to the jealous wife who committed the crime. Along the way, I was privileged to speak with the descendants of many of the primary participants in The Unwritten Law.  I visited the microfilm room at the University of Kentucky, where I obtained every available newspaper account of this well-publicized trial, later traveled to the Kentucky communities of Whitley City and Somerset, and visited Pearl's surviving sister in a nursing home in Louisville. Foremost in my mind during the writing of this book was to get every detail as correct as possible so many decades after the events had transpired, while at the same time trying to tell the story without showing bias toward either side in this criminal trial which so symbolized the changing roles of women in American society in the Roaring Twenties.  It is my sincerest hope that the reader will find me successful in these efforts.