02931cam a2200637 i 4500 532109808 TxAuBib 040130s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004043818 9780385510431 0385510438 9780440241577 pbk. 044024157X pbk. 9780385510448 0385510446 (OCoLC)53989269 DLC eng DLC WZQ XY4 OCO BAKER IXA BTCTA YDXCP CN5O8 Z27 GBVCP BDX YDX CNAHP CNGNQ OCLCF P4I OCLCQ OCLCO WVX OCLCQ TxAuBib rda Grisham, John. Last juror. The last juror / John Grisham. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2004. 355 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details and the paper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when he was found guilty. He was sentenced to life in prison, but in Mississippi, in 1970, "life" didn't necessarily mean "life" and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County and the retribution began. Trials (Murder) Fiction. Trials (Murder.) Newspaper publishing Fiction. Newspaper publishing. Ex-convicts Fiction. Ex-convicts. Revenge Fiction. Revenge. Jury Fiction. Jury. Mississippi Fiction. Mississippi. Ex-convicts Fiction. Jurors United States Attitudes Fiction. Jury Fiction. Large type books. Legal stories. Mississippi Fiction. Newspaper publishing Fiction. Revenge Fiction. Suspense fiction. Trials (Murder) Fiction. Miscellaneous fiction. Fiction. Suspense fiction. Legal stories. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2004043818.html Sample text https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random056/2004043818.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random052/2004043818.html Publisher description